Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 January 2021
407. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the location of each Science Foundation Ireland research centre; the amount of funding allocated to each such centre in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2808/21]
View answerSFI Research Centres are hosted at one Higher Education Institute. The host institute has responsibility for the administration of the award. However, each Centre has a number of academic partners with researchers at those partner institutes heavily involved in the Centre’s research. The budget assigned to the central award flows to the relevant partner Universities/Institutes of Technology/Technological Universities all around the country.
SFI Research Centres are awarded through the SFI Research Centres programme. Awards are made on a multi annual basis with each SFI Research Centre Award made for a period of 6 years. The figures presented reflect the payments made to the SFI Research Centres in 2019 and 2020. They do not reflect the value of the full SFI Research Centre programme awards made to each Centre. In addition, each SFI Research Centre has been successful in securing further research funding awards from SFI through a range of funding schemes. The figures presented here relate to payments against the core SFI Research Centre Programme award only.
|
Research Centre |
Host Research Body |
2019 Budget Allocation |
2020 Budget Allocation |
|
ADAPT, SFI Research Centre for Digital Media Technology |
Trinity College Dublin |
4,317,719.00 |
1,978,614.98 |
|
AMBER, SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research |
Trinity College Dublin |
4,296,888.34 |
11,177,411.48 |
|
APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Centre |
University College Cork |
6,290,125.62 |
7,662,140.75 |
|
BiOrbic, SFI Bioeconomy Research Centre |
University College Dublin |
1,744,833.50 |
3,237,706.00 |
|
Confirm, SFI Research Centre for Smart Manufacturing |
University of Limerick |
2,970,377.00 |
6,645,330.00 |
|
Connect, SFI Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications |
Trinity College Dublin |
6,385,233.70 |
3,959,558.17 |
|
CÚRAM, SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices |
National University of Ireland, Galway |
4,822,074.90 |
5,563,936 |
|
FutureNeuro, SFI Research Centre for Chronic and Rare Neurological Diseases |
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
1,795,993.00 |
1,769,721.00 |
|
iCRAG, SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences |
University College Dublin |
3,235,518.50 |
3,733,282.00 |
|
I-FORM, SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing |
University College Dublin |
2,833,820.00 |
3,600,271.00 |
|
Insight, SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics |
National University of Ireland, Galway |
9,247,179 |
5,919,740 |
|
IPIC, SFI Research Centre |
Tyndall National Institute |
3,145,492 |
4,715,555.00 |
|
Lero, SFI Research Centre for Software |
University of Limerick |
4,238,612.28 |
7,336,053.00 |
|
MaREI, SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine |
University College Cork |
3,224,553.00 |
1,760,761.00 |
|
SSPC, SFI Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals |
University of Limerick |
4,961,133.00 |
5,897,528.00 |
|
VistaMilk, SFI Research Centre for Digitalising Dairy Production and Processing |
Teagasc, Fermoy, Co. Cork |
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5,365,935.00 |
