Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 15 February 2017
293. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of SFI awards that have been made to HEIs for collaborations between the North and South under the CSET, SRC, PICA and PIYRA programmes; the details of the awards for the years 2015 and 2016 showing which HEIs and research teams benefitted from these awards, in tabular form. [7713/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe SFI programmes referred to are largely legacy programmes that have been replaced by other programmes in recent years. SFI research outputs data for 2015 indicates that there have been 30 Higher Education Institute (HEI) collaborations with academic researchers in Northern Ireland across three programmes: the US-Ireland R&D Partnership, the SFI Investigators Programme and the SFI Research Centres Programme. The following tables provide a breakdown of academic collaboration by HEI and by SFI Programme from the SFI Research Outputs Data 2015. SFI Research Outputs data for 2016 collaborations will be available in June 2017.
Table 1 – Number of Collaborations by HEI from SFI Research Outputs 2015
|
HEI |
Collaborations |
|
Cork IT |
1 |
|
DCU |
1 |
|
DIAS |
2 |
|
Marine Institute |
1 |
|
NUIG |
1 |
|
RCSI |
1 |
|
TCD |
7 |
|
Tyndall National Institute |
3 |
|
UCC |
5 |
|
UCD |
5 |
|
University of Limerick |
3 |
Northern Ireland institutions involved in these collaborations are Queens University Belfast; University of Ulster and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland.
Table 2 – Collaborations by SFI Programme from SFI Research Outputs Data 2015
|
SFI Award Programme |
Collaborations |
|
US/Ireland R&D |
6 |
|
SFI Investigator Programme |
17 |
|
SFI Research Centre |
7 |
Note further awards were approved under the SFI Investigator Programme 2016 and the US Ireland R&D Programme in partnership with the Department of Economy in Northern Ireland but this data is not included in Table 2 as it will be reported as part of the 2016 SFI Research Outputs Data which will be available in June 2017.
