Irish researchers secure €6.1m in latest round of EU’s FP7 funding

FOOD scientists in Irish research institutes and SMEs have secured €6.1 million in the latest round of the EU’s FP7 technical research funding.

Successful applicants included Teagasc, the Marine Institute, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, and Limerick Institute of Technology. Irish researchers have secured over €20.3m to date since 2007 under FP7, the abbreviation for the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney said: “It is important for Irish researchers to participate in European collaborative programmes and this recent success indicates the high quality of research being conducted at Irish research institutes.