€10m research fund unveiled

THE Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) has unveiled a €10.8 million scheme that will fund the early career formation of new doctoral and masters researchers in the sciences, engineering and technology.

The Postgraduate Scholarship Research Scheme (Second Call) will operate in 2008 under the Council’s Embark Initiative.

IRCSET’s multi-annual research funding programmes are aimed at knowledge creation for the future benefit of society and the economy. They are also aimed at retaining highly talented researchers and attracting new ones to carry out work in Ireland.

Approximately 75 awards will be funded in this round, with the expectation that approximately 20 will be within IRCSET’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme, which co-funds research scholars with industry partners.

IRCSET has issued a call for applicants to a competitive process that will award funding.