Government announces €460m investment in new research centres

The centres will have additional funding of €500m leveraged from industry and other sources

Further and higher education, research, innovation and science minister James Lawless.  The Government will invest €460m in seven new national research centres. Picture: Noel Sweeney

The Government will invest €460m in seven new national research centres, focusing on advanced therapies, artificial intelligence, energy, medical devices, pharma/biopharma, and quantum and semiconductors. 

The seven new 'Rinn' Research Ireland centres will support 577 research positions, and develop over 800 PhDs. The  work will be carried out by 17 research bodies including Tyndall in Cork, UCC, MTU, UL, Atlantic Technological University, DCU, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Maynooth University, South East Technological University, Trinity College, Technological University Dublin, Technological University of the Shannon, UCD, University of Galway, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, as well as the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, and the Economic and Social Research Institute.