Applications in Progress

Postdoctoral Internship Programme 2021

Six applications were received by the HRB on the 28 of October. All candidates were invited for interview and four have been offered the internship which will start in early January. All candidates and Host Institutions have been notified.

Summer Student Scholarship 2022

The Summer Student Scholarships 2022 call opened on Tuesday 16 November. The deadline for submission of applications is Thursday 20 January 2022 at 13:00.

Structured PhD Programme in Population Health and Health Services Research (PHHSR) 2022

The international panel met virtually on Tuesday 9 November. The leadership team were interviewed as part of the review. The team will be invited shortly to respond to the Panel report. The Panel recommendation will be brought to the HRB Board, for final approval, in February 2022.

Investigator-Led Projects (ILP) 2022

This call closed for applications on the 13 September 2021. We received 120 applications and HRB staff are completing eligibility checks.

Emerging Investigator Awards for Health (EIA) 2022 

42 eligible pre-applications were discussed by an international panel virtually on the 13 and 14 of October and 15 Lead Applicants were invited to full application stage. All lead applicants have been notified and will receive feedback in the coming weeks.

Secondary Data Analysis Projects (SDAP) 2021

The Board approved 10 awards following recommendations of an international Panel in early October 2021. All applicants have been notified.

ERA-NET TRANSCAN-3 Joint Transnational Call for Proposals (2021)

Successful consortia at pre-proposal stage have been invited to submit a full proposal with a submission deadline of 20 December 2021.

Collaborative Doctoral Awards in Patient-Focused Research (CDA) 2021

At their November meeting the HRB Board approved the recommendation of the international Panel to fund three CDA Programmes. All leadership teams have been notified of this outcome. Eight teams were invited to submit full applications following the first stage of assessment where a total of 22 pre-application were received.

Research Collaborative in Quality and Patient Safety 2021 (RCQPS)

The review panel assessing Full proposal submissions will convene virtually at the end of November to discuss applications and make funding recommendations to the HRB Board.

Open Calls

Research visits – Ulysses 2022

The HRB is partnering with the Irish Research Council’s (IRC) Ulysses travel grant to fund a number of research visits to France in three areas, Patient-oriented and clinical research, Population health research and Health services research. Support is provided for short visits to partner institutions, and covers travel and subsistence costs. The deadline is 20 January 2022 at 16.00 with decisions expected in June 2022. Please contact ulysses@research.ie for further information

Horizon Europe

Horizon Europe (2021-2027) is the EU’s funding programme for research and innovation.

The 2022 calls (Single and two-stage calls) are now open!

Single stage calls close on 21st April 2022 and the first stage of 2-stage calls close on 1st February 2022  Details of these calls are available on the Funding and Tenders Portal Search Funding & Tenders (europa.eu)

Examples of calls are:

Better financing models for health systems, Pre-clinical development of the next generation of immunotherapies for diseases or disorders with unmet medical needs, Development of new effective therapies for rare diseases, developing the next generation of vaccines, Boosting mental health in Europe in times of change and Prevention of obesity throughout the life course to highlight a few. 

The Work Programme is available here in PDF. For queries, please contact the Health NCP at the HRB, Kay Duggan-Walls, kdugganwalls@hrb.ie.

An online information event was held on 28th October on the 2022 calls and the recordings are available here https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/events/upcoming-events/horizon-europe-info-days/cluster-1_en

Health NCPs are organising a webinar on 2022 calls on 9th December at 10am. Register here.

National Integrated PhD Programme for Medical Practitioners 2022

This is a targeted funding initiative to support a structured national PhD programme to enable integrated clinical and research training for medical practitioners. Building on the existing HRB-Wellcome-funded Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) programme, the HRB has invited the  current ICAT Co-directors to lead an application, on behalf of key stakeholders and partners, seeking funding for a further phase of investment from the HRB. This investment aims to continue supporting a diverse, multidisciplinary, collaborative, all-Ireland, integrated clinical academic programme. The application process opened in mid-October with a deadline for submission on 22 of December. The application will be subject to international panel review.

US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership Programme

This is a rolling call. Check the scheme notice for full details.

EU4Health

Action grants:

13 calls for proposals for action grants was launched worth up to €44million. Projects in areas such as health data, healthy lifestyles, mental health, cancer and genomics will be supported under these calls. Deadline for submission is 25th Jan 2022. Full details on each call can be found in the call document.

Prizes:

The 2021 EU Health Award has also launched earlier this month and it covers two topics (see flyers attached):

  • Cancer prevention: rewarding initiatives of cities, NGOs or other civil society organisations, and educational institutions seeking to promote communication and health literacy on cancer prevention among children and young people (from 6 to 24 years old).
  • Mental health: rewarding community-based initiatives alleviating the mental health impact of COVID-19.

The deadline for this award is the 30 November 2021. All further details on the prizes, criteria as well as the award rules are available on the EU Health Award website.

Upcoming Calls

ERA PerMed

A joint Transnational Call on “Prevention in Personalised Medicine” expected to launch on 1 December 2021 with a deadline for submission of pre-proposals of 17 February 2022.

European Joint Programme Rare Diseases

A joint Transnational Call on “Development of new analytic tools and pathways to accelerate diagnosis and facilitate diagnostic monitoring of rare diseases” expected to launch on 14 December 2021  with a deadline for submission of pre-proposals 16 February 2022.

Definitive Intervention and Feasibility Awards (DIFA) 2022

The HRB intends to launch a new call for Definitive Interventions and Feasibility Awards  in Q1 2022, subject to board approval. The scheme supports evaluations of full-scale, definitive interventions of any appropriate design and feasibility studies conducted in preparation for future definitive intervention. More details to follow.

Applied Partnership Awards 2022 (APA)

The call for proposals for the Applied Partnership Awards (APA) 2022 will launch in January 2022, subject to Board approval. Further details will follow.

EU4Health

The second wave of calls for proposals are due to be launched on the 14th Oct 2021 with a deadline of 25th Jan 2022. There are 17 calls to be launched, 10 of which are cancer related actions. Please see EU4Health Programme    for further details.

HRCI/HRB Joint Funding Scheme 2022

This scheme funds internationally competitive and innovative research in areas of strategic relevance to HRCI-registered research charities. Those interested in this scheme should contact HRCI for further information. Participating charity calls are now open and listed on the HRCI Open Calls page . Applicants should contact the relevant charity for their specific call details and deadlines for submission for charity endorsement. Further information and instructions for both charities and applicants can be found on the HRB grants page. 

SFI-HRB-Wellcome Research Partnership

To support their new strategy, Wellcome is changing the way they support scientific research. A new range of discovery research funding schemes has been launched and these will open for applications in late summer 2021.All current Wellcome funding schemes will close during 2021. Please check relevant scheme pages for final application deadlines. 

DOROTHY COFUND Programme

The Health Research Board, in collaboration with the Irish research Council (IRC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and co-funded by the European Union, is working towards the forthcoming launch of the DOROTHY COFUND programme. Fellowships will have an international outgoing phase of 18 months, followed by a return phase to Ireland of 18 months. DOROTHY is open to applicants from all nationalities are Experienced Researcher (ER), provided they haven’t resided in the outgoing phase country for more than 12 months in the three years immediately before the call deadline. It is open to all disciplines, provided that their research topic relates to public health crises. The call is envisaged to launch in Q4 2021 and will be managed by IRC.