Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme (CPFP) 2026
Building capacity and capability of academic-based researchers to tackle applied health and social care challenges.
HRB Grant schemes
Funding opportunities, upcoming grant calls and related guidelines
National PPI Ignite Network (PPI-IN) 2026
As part of the HRB’s continued commitment to PPI we are now launching a call to support a further phase of the PPI Ignite Network from 2026 to 2031. This grant will run over 60 months and will provide funding of €1.84M for the PPI Ignite National Office €0.5M per Lead Site
HRB-DOH Evidence for Policy (EfP) Programme 2025
Collaboration to address research priorities to inform policy-making for the Department of Health
Collaborative Research Network in Mental Health 2025 (CRN 2025)
The HRB has a strong track record of supporting collaborative research networks in key policy areas, and the Collaborative Research Networks scheme is a competitive funding mechanism designed to support networks in Ireland that bring together interdisciplinary teams to address key health and social care challenges. The scheme funds networks that demonstrate strong governance, meaningful […]
Investigator-Led Clinical Trials (ILCT) Programme 2025 (prev DIFA)
ILCT supports research that address questions relevant to the improvement of patient care, health of the public and health services.
Conference and Event Sponsorship Scheme (CES) 2025
The Conference and Events Sponsorship Scheme aims to create an opportunity to host health-research related events, workshops, or conferences in Ireland.
European Rare Diseases Research Alliance 2025
The HRB is participating in the ERDERA Joint Transnational Call 2025 to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of rare diseases under the call entitled “Pre-clinical therapy studies for rare diseases using small molecules and biologicals – development and validation”.
Network of European Funding for Neuroscience Research 2025
The Health Research Board (HRB) is participating in the ERA-NET NEURON Joint Transnational Call 2025 to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of neuroscience under the call entitled “Interdisciplinary approaches to the neuroscience of pain”.
EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research 2025
The HRB is participating in the JPND Joint Transnational Call 2025 to support Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of neurodegenerative diseases under the call entitled “Health and social care research with a focus on the moderate and late stages of neurodegenerative diseases”.
European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems 2025
The HRB is supporting Irish researchers to engage in transnational collaborative research in the field of health and care systems research under the call entitled “Better care closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care”.
ERA4Health Partnership 2025 “EffecTrial”
The HRB is participating in the ERA4Health Joint Transnational Pilot Call in multi-country investigator-initiated clinical studies (IICS) on ‘Fostering Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trials in Non-communicable Diseases’ (EffecTrial).
All-Ireland NCI Cancer Consortium (AICC) Research & Innovation Grant Scheme 2024
The aim of the AICC scheme is to support innovative, dynamic, and collaborative cross-border and trans-Atlantic cancer research and innovation within the 3 key AICC priority areas, to benefit all-island cancer patients.
US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme
Increasing collaboration between United States of America (USA), Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland researchers
Applied Partnership Awards (APA)
Research projects that address a specific need within the Irish health or social care system
Knowledge Translation Awards (KTA) 2024
The aim of this scheme is to provide HRB funded researchers with an opportunity to seek supplementary funding for integrated knowledge translation (iKT) activities not covered in the original award that will maximise the potential impact of the research findings on policy or practice or communicate research and research findings to the general public.
The aim of this scheme is to provide HRB funded researchers with an opportunity to seek supplementary funding for integrated knowledge translation (iKT) activities not covered in the original award that will maximise the potential impact of the research findings on policy or practice or communicate research and research findings to the general public.
The aim of this scheme is to provide HRB funded researchers with an opportunity to seek supplementary funding for integrated knowledge translation (iKT) activities not covered in the original award 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 Research Networks 2024: Dementia and Palliative care
Funding for established collaborative research networks to build on and extend their work.
HRB Postdoctoral Fellowships – Applying Research into Policy and Practice (ARPP) 2023
The overarching aim is to develop talented and skilled health and social care researchers during the postdoctoral stage of their research career, particularly emphasising an ability to apply research evidence to improve healthcare and health policy and reduce the gap between research findings and clinical practice and/or health policy.
Summer Student Scholarships (SS) 2025
Short research projects for undergraduate students in a health or social care-related discipline
Collaborative Doctoral Awards in Patient-focused Research (CDA) 2021
Supporting excellent doctoral training programmes for future health researchers in the conduct of patient-focused research.
HRB Impact Award 2025
The award will recognise a HRB-funded researcher who has led their research to impact/s on policy, practice, services or the health and social care system.
Emerging Clinician Scientist Awards (ECSA) 2024
Supporting health and social care practitioners of any professional background in the Republic of Ireland by facilitating and supporting their transition towards research independence and who can facilitate actionable knowledge in health research.
Research in-Practice Fellowships for Health and Social Care Practitioners (RFP) 2026 (prev Clinician Scientist Fellowships)
The aim of this scheme is to provide opportunities for talented health and social care practitioners from a variety of professional backgrounds to conduct research at post-PhD level while continuing to deliver patient care or social care as practitioner researchers.
Investigator-Led Projects (ILP) 2024
The ILP scheme aims to support highly innovative and internationally competitive investigator-led projects that can respond to existing and emerging challenges for health and social care. The ILP provides funding for clearly defined research projects in: (i) Patient-oriented research (POR), (ii) Population health research (PHR), and (iii) Health services research (HSR).
HRCI-HRB Joint Funding Scheme 2024
HRCI/HRB Joint Funding Scheme aims to fund researchers and research teams to conduct internationally competitive and innovative research in areas of strategic relevance to each individual charity.
Fulbright-HRB Health Impact Awards 2025
Research and/or professional development (between three and six months) in the United States of America (USA).
Secondary Data Analysis Projects (SDAP 2025)
Research projects employing secondary data analysis that supports policy and practice decision making for health and social care.
EJP Rare Diseases Joint Transnational Call (2023) “Natural History Studies addressing unmet needs in Rare Diseases”
The objective of this call is to support efficient, innovative and high-quality natural history studies on rare diseases, which will facilitate understanding of the disease’s or group of disorders’ progression throughout the lifespan of a patient. The goal of these studies is to collect and analyze comprehensive patient data to define targets for future therapies, taking into consideration innovation, safety, and efficacy, and ultimately benefitting patients in the future.
EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) Joint Transnational Call (2023) “Large scale analysis of OMICS data for drug-target finding in neurodegenerative diseases”
The aim of the call is to establish a number of ambitious, innovative, multi-disciplinary and multi-national collaborative research projects that seek to improve the understanding of the complex and multifactorial pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases by applying multi-OMICs and Big data approaches in order to generate useful information for the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and drug discovery of neurodegenerative diseases.
ERA-NET Neuron Joint Transnational Call “Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability to Environmental Challenges in Mental Health” (2023)
The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address critical translational questions to improve our knowledge concerning neurobiological mechanisms involved in resilience or vulnerability to environmental challenges in mental health.
ERA4Health Joint Transnational Call (2023) “Increasing health equity through promoting healthy diets and physical activity (HealthEquity)”
The aim of this call is to develop novel strategies and targeted approaches to identify, understand, and modify determinants and mechanisms of diet-related behaviour and physical activity as well as sedentary behaviour, which have the potential to break through the cycles maintaining unhealthy behaviours and lifestyles and to reduce health inequities. The expected results have the potential to improve the health and well-being of socio-economically disadvantaged groups through targeted approaches for a long-term behaviour change in the areas of healthy diet and physical activity.
JPI AMR Joint Transnational Call (2023) “Development of innovative strategies, tools, technologies, and methods for diagnostics and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance”
This call aims to fund research projects developing novel or improving existing strategies, tools, technologies and methods for diagnosis and/or One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance. The results of the funded projects should contribute to improved understanding, monitoring, detection and mitigation of infection and AMR, or optimisation of AMU where efforts to curb AMR will have a global impact on human, animal and plant health and food safety and security.
Applied Programme Grants (APRO) 2023
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.
Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) Joint Transnational Call 2023 “Healthcare of the Future”
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.
Rare Diseases Research and Innovation Catalyst Awards (RDCat) 2023
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.
ERA-NET-Cofund TRANSCAN-3 Joint Transnational Call (2023) “Translational research on cancer epigenetics”
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.
Emerging Investigator Awards (EIA) 2024
Supporting academic researchers at mid-stage of their research career transitioning to research independence and who can facilitate actionable knowledge in health research.
HRB evidence synthesis award to support clinical practice guideline development (ESCG) 2024
Ensuring high quality evidence support to inform clinical guideline development.
ERA4Health Joint Transnational Call (2024) “Modulation of brain ageing through nutrition and healthy lifestyle (NutriBrain)”
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.
JPND Joint Transnational Working Group Call (2023) “Use of digital technologies in neurodegenerative disease research and clinical practice”
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.
European Partnership for Personalised Medicine 2024
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)”.
Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance 2024
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 ”.
HRB-DOH Evidence for Policy (EfP) Programme 2024
Generating evidence to inform policy making in health and social care.
All-Ireland NCI Cancer Consortium (AICC). Research & Innovation Grant Scheme 2024
The aim of the AICC scheme is to support innovative, dynamic, and collaborative cross-border and trans-Atlantic cancer research and innovation within the 3 key AICC priority areas, to benefit all-island cancer patients.
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”.