All Funding Schemes

• Call open

  Definitive Interventions and Feasibility Awards (DIFA) 2020

  Evaluating definitive trials of interventions, and studies in preparation for future definitive interventions

• Call open

  HRCI/HRB Joint Funding Scheme 2020 (Previously MRCG-HRB)

  Research projects that address the needs of specific patient populations

• Call open

  Summer Student Scholarship (SS) 2020

  Short research projects for undergraduate students in a health or social care-related discipline

• Call open

  SFI-HRB-Wellcome Biomedical Research Partnership

  Access for Irish applicants to funding schemes from Wellcome

• Call open

  US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme

  Increasing collaboration between United States of America (USA), Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland researchers

• Call open

  NCI Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention 2020

  Support to attend one or two courses on offer at the National Cancer Institute

• HRB Postdoctoral Fellowships - Applying Research into Policy and Practice (ARPP) 2020 (Next call in 2021)

  Fellowships in applied health research

• NCI-HRB Cancer Prevention Fellowships Programme 2020 (Next call in May 2020)

  International fellowships in cancer prevention.

• Applied Partnership Awards (APA) 2019 (Next call TBC)

  Research projects that address a specific need within the Irish health or social care system

• Fulbright-HRB Health Impact Awards 2020 (Next call in 2020)

  Research and/or professional development (between three and six months) in the United States of America (USA)

• HRB Internship Programme 2019 Round 2

  First-hand experience of working in a State agency alongside experienced professionals

• Research visits – Ulysses 2019 (Next call in May 2020)

  Travel awards for exchange visits to French researchers

• Conference and event sponsorship scheme 2019 (Next call in Jan 2020)

  Sponsorship support for seminars/workshops, events and conferences in health research within Ireland.

• Emerging Investigator Awards (EIA) 2019 (Next call in Q2 2020)

  Supporting researchers currently at mid-stage of their career in their transition into independence. Pre-applications will open 28 May 2018.

• Knowledge Exchange and Dissemination Scheme (KEDS) (Next call TBC)

  Supplementary funding for HRB funded researchers for activities that will maximise the potential impact of the research findings on policy or practice, or communicate research and research findings to the general public.

• Collaborative Doctoral Awards in Patient-focused Research (CDA) 2019 (Next call in Q4 2020)

  Supporting excellent doctoral training programmes for future health researchers in the conduct of patient-focused research.

• HRB Impact Award 2019 (Next call in Q3 2020)

  The award will recognise a researcher or health professional who has made a significant impact on people’s health or on health policy or practice.

• Investigator-Led Projects (ILP) 2019 (Next call in Q3 2020)

  Projects in (1) Patient-Oriented Research, (2) Population Health Research and (3) Health Services Research.

• European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) Joint Transnational Call 2020 (Opening in Dec 2019)

  This is the second call from European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD). It is a Joint Transnational Call to fund multilateral research projects on rare diseases.

• Secondary Data Analysis Projects (SDAP) 2019 (Next call TBC)

  Research projects with direct relevance to policy and/or practice in the Irish health and social care system.

• Joint Transnational Call for Proposals (2019) For 'Personalised Medicine: Multidisciplinary Research Towards Implementation' (Next joint call in Dec 2019)

  ERAPerMed have launched the second Joint Transnational Call for collaborative innovative research projects in PM. The funding organisations participating in this call particularly wish to promote innovative interdisciplinary collaboration and to encourage translational research proposals

• JPND Transnational Call 2019: Multinational research projects on Personalised Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Next joint call TBC)

  To support ambitious, innovative, multinational and multidisciplinary collaborative research projects to change the trajectory of these debilitating diseases through the development of Precision Medicine approaches.

• Proof of Concept technical model for ‘DASSL’ (Data Access, Storage, Sharing and Linkage) award 2019 (Closed)

  Proof of concept for national infrastructure for the access, storage, sharing and linkage of research data and routinely collected health and social care data.

• Research Leader Awards (RL) 2020 (Next call in Q1 2021)

  Supporting established health investigators in academic setting transitioning to leadership in health research.

• Emerging Clinician Scientist Awards (ECSA) 2020 (Next call in Q1 2021)

  Supporting health and care practitioners currently at mid-stage of their research career transitioning to research independence.

• Research Collaborative in Quality and Patient Safety (Next call TBC)

  Research projects where knowledge users and academic researchers collaborate to focus on Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) research questions of national priority. The 2019 RCQPS launch event will be held in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on 4 April 2019.

• Clinician Scientist Postdoctoral Fellowships (CSF) 2020 (Next call in 2021)

  Fellowships for Health and Care Practitioners in applied health research.

• Pre Call Announcement: Clinical Trial Networks (CTN) 2020

  The HRB plan to launch a new call for Clinical Trial Networks, subject to HRB Board approval, which will focus on supporting activities of a number of established networks in Ireland, with the aim of developing and delivering a high-quality portfolio of investigator-led trials with relevance to health and social care needs in Ireland.