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Grant updates - March 2024
Find out about new funding calls, where your application is in the process, and upcoming deadlines.
Applications in progress
Conference and Event Sponsorship Scheme (CES) 2024
The HRB Conference and Event Sponsorship Scheme (CES 2024) closed on 8 February 2024. Out of 51 eligible applications received, 37 were short-listed following initial panel review. The review panel meeting took place on 21 March 2024 and recommendations from this will go to the HRB Executive team for approval in early April.
Emerging Clinician Scientist Awards (ECSA) 2024
The full application stage closes on 28 March 2024. The peer and public review and the applicant response stage will be completed by end of June. The international interview Panel meeting will take place on 10-11 September 2024.
Emerging Investigator Awards (EIA) 2024
The full application stage is now closed, and 12 applications were submitted out of 14 invited. The peer and public review has just started and the applicant response stage will be completed by end of June. The interview Panel meeting will take place on 4-5 September 2024.
Fulbright-HRB Health Impact Awards 2024
Five applications were received by the 27 October 2023 deadline. The Fullbright Commission are managing the call. The awards will be announced in June 2024.
Investigator Led Awards (ILP 2024)
The 2024 round of the Investigator Led Awards closed on 11 October 2023. From the 108 applications received, one was deemed out of scope and 107 are currently under peer and public review.
Summer Student Scholarships 2024
Lead applicants and host institution received the outcome recently and 108 eligible applications underwent an audited randomisation process on 19 February 2024. 54 applications were selected for funding, which equals to a 50% success rate of all eligible applications. The HRB received 127 applications and 19 were deemed ineligible.
Open Calls
Applied Partnership Awards (APA) 2024
This call opened 10 January 2024. It will be a rolling call with two closing dates. Cycle I will close 10 April 2024, and cycle II will close 18 December 2024.
All-Ireland NCI Cancer Consortium (AICC) - Research & Innovation Grant Scheme 2024
The AICC scheme is intended as a pilot with a dedicated funding stream to prime cancer research activity across the 3 key AICC priority areas: Cancer Care Delivery and Survivorship; Clinical Research and Trials; Genomic and Precision Medicine. The closing date for applications is 1.00 pm 26 April 2024.
Health Research Charities Ireland-Health Research Board (HRCI-HRB 2024)
The 2024 round of the HRCI-HRB Joint Funding Scheme is currently open to receive applications selected by individual charities. The scheme aims to fund researchers and research teams to conduct internationally competitive and innovative research in areas of strategic relevance to each individual charity.
European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems 2024
The Health Research Board (HRB) is participating in the THCS Joint Transnational Call 2024 to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of health and care systems under the call entitled “Innovate to Prevent: Personalised Prevention in Health and Care Services”.
Note that there is a mandatory intent to apply stage for this call with a deadline of 16 April 2024 at 1.00 pm (GMT).
The full proposal deadline is 14 May 2024 at 1.00 pm (GMT).
US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme
This is a rolling call. Check the scheme notice for full details.
Other European research funding opportunities
See our EU funding updates - March 2024 story for information on more European research funding opportunities.
See also the HRB website for general information on the Horizon Europe and EU4Health programmes.
All HRB funding schemes
View a list of all HRB research funding schemes.