Minister allocates €5m in funding for research in partnership with enterprises
Detecting ovarian cancer in its early stages; finding new treatments for preterm infants affected by retinal diseases, including blindness; and improving the sustainability of ‘smart’ medical device implants; and originating a set of nutritional guidelines for young GAA athletes are among 50 projects to be awarded a total of €5 million in funding under the latest round of the Irish Research Council’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme and Employment-Based Postgraduate Programme.
The IRC’s enterprise programmes provide postgraduate and postdoctoral candidates, hosted by a research-performing institution, with the opportunity to collaborate with an enterprise or employer on a research project of mutual interest.
Announcing the award winners, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science, Simon Harris said: “For enterprise and employment partners, the schemes provide a low-risk, flexible route to research talent and innovation in an area closely aligned with their strategic interests.
“These collaborative projects will allow researchers to gain valuable experience in the early stages of their careers, while employers and enterprises will benefit from having fresh perspectives, expertise, new ideas and knowledge.”
Peter Brown, director, Irish Research Council, said: “Researchers and employers benefit mutually. Researchers get exposure to sectoral challenges and how to address them from within a research setting. They get to work alongside some very talented and innovative people as well as industry mentors, who they can learn from; and this new knowledge can then be applied in their research and work.”
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