Funding opportunities, upcoming grant calls and related guidelines
The Applied Programme Grants (APRO) aim to support a strategic programme of applied research in health and social care that will have an impact on the health and social care of individuals, population health and the health system in Ireland and beyond.
The ambition of this call is to identify and develop innovative solutions that can, in the future, help to relieve the pressure on health and care facilities by informing decision-making and optimising the delivery of health and care services across different settings. The complementarity of inpatient and outpatient care, and the coordination between them needs to be optimised. Organisational innovations, continuity of care across all care levels, integrated care and harnessing the potential of supporting digital technologies provide a multitude of possibilities for such optimization, creating opportunities for health and care systems to reap the benefits of distributed health and care. The proposed solutions should aim to make health and care systems economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable, while keeping people at the centre of the care process.
The overall aim of the RDCat call is to optimise readiness for the planned Rare Diseases Partnership and ensure that research and innovation can deliver better outcomes for rare disease patients in Ireland.
The expected outcome of the call is to improve the efficacy of current detection, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancers, through the development of novel approaches based on a better understanding of cancer epigenetics. The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to stimulate new partnerships between researchers and clinicians and support original, high-quality projects, with significant clinical impact.
Supporting academic researchers at mid-stage of their research career transitioning to research independence and who can facilitate actionable knowledge in health research.
Ensuring high quality evidence support to inform clinical guideline development.
The aim of the call is to support transnational research projects that focus on the improvement of cognitive brain ageing through nutrition and other lifestyle factors. Thereby it enables scientists from different countries to build a valuable collaboration on interdisciplinary research projects based on complementarities and sharing of expertise in the field of brain ageing, its related disorders, nutrition and lifestyle factors. Research projects should gain further insights into the modulation of brain ageing by lifestyle factors and/or pilot test interventions based on the existing evidence in the literature or upscale existing pilot interventions that will help to lower the risk of cognitive impairment manifestations related to a pathological brain ageing.
This call will fund networking activity for leading scientists in the field to establish Working Groups dedicated to the conceptualization of the use of digital technologies in neurodegenerative disease research and clinical practice. The Working Groups should discuss innovative and new ideas, future developments and provide outputs of value to JPND and the broader research community e.g. by establishing guidelines and/or methodological frameworks. The call does not support direct research activities and studies.
The Health Research Board (HRB) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) are collaborating to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of personalised medicine under the call entitled “Identification or Validation of Targets for Personalised Medicine Approaches (PMTargets)”.
The HRB is participating in the JPIAMR Joint Transnational Call 2024 to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of antimicrobial resistance under the call entitled “Interventions Moving forward to Promote ACTion to counteract the emergence and spread of bacterial and fungal resistance and to improve treatments ”.