Science Foundation Ireland Early Career Researcher Forum, September 2015 Dr Eimear Holohan

Early-Mid Career Opportunities Years post-PhD (approx.) SFI SIRG Royal Society-SFI URF Transitioning to independence SFI ERC Support - Starting SFI-HRB-WT (Sir Henry Wellcome, RCDF & Career Re-entry) SFI fully-funded programme Programme to end Dec 2015 Joint-funded programme SFI Career Development Award SFI PIYRA SFI Future Research Leaders Award SFI ERC Support - Consolidator Transitioning to Leadership New SFI-HRB-WT (Senior Research Fellowship) SFI PIYRA

2015 Programmes PROGRAMMEEst. LaunchEst. Decision SFI Starting Investigator Researcher GrantQ3 2015Q SFI Career Development AwardQ3 2015Q SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher AwardRolling SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust (WT) Biomedical Research Partnership WT deadlines SFI-Royal Society University Research FellowshipRS deadlines SFI Fellowship ProgrammeRolling SFI Industry Fellowship (2 deadlines per year)Q Q / Q SFI / EI Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) Q Q SFI Conferences and WorkshopsRolling

Early and Mid Career Awards  Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) For those who are 3-8 years post-PhD and who have NEVER been employed as an independent (i.e., unsupervised) researcher  Career Development Award (CDA) For researchers who are 3-15 years post-PhD and who have already moved into permanent or fixed-term independent research positions  President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA) For outstanding researchers who are 3-8 years post-PhD and who have exceptional track records for their current career stage  Future Research Leaders Award For outstanding researchers who are 3-15 years post-PhD and who have exceptional track records for their current career stage. Focus on recruitment.

SIRG (Starting Investigator Research Grant)  Runs approximately every 2 years –call is currently open. 12 candidates per Research Body Deadline for institutional notification of candidates 25 th September Deadline for submission of applications 26 th November  Must have received PhD in last 3 to 8 years & be a postdoc / research fellow under supervision  Funding: Up to €400k over 4 years 

CDA (Career Development Award)  Runs approximately every 2 years ––call is currently open. 12 candidates per Research Body Deadline for institutional notification of candidates 2 nd October Deadline for submission of applications 10 th December  Must have received PhD in last 3 to 15 years & hold an independent position  Funding: €300k - €500k over 4 years  Dr Amanda Daly

PIYRA (President of Ireland Young Researcher Award)  To recruit and retain top-tier early career researchers to carry out their research in Ireland  Key dates: – Rolling call – Expression of Interest required prior to submission of full proposal – 3 to 8 years post Ph.D.  Funding: Up to €1M over five years  Dr Aisling McEvoy CLOSING TO APPLICATIONS (EoIs) ON 21st DECEMBER 2015

Future Research Leaders Award  To recruit top-tier early career researchers to carry out their research in Ireland who have demonstrated proven potential by having secured research funding and accumulated supervisory experience  Must have received PhD in last 3 to 15 years  Funding: Up to €1M over five years  A focus will be placed on recruitment and the call will be open to researchers based outside of Ireland as well as those recently recruited from overseas (within 2 years).  The call will run as a deadline call.  Call to be announced in Q with a deadline in Q Dr Aisling McEvoy

Royal Society Science Foundation Ireland Partnership  Royal Society Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership  Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship  Research Career Development Fellowship  Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science  Career Re-Entry Fellowship. Early and Mid Career Awards

Royal Society – Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship  Key aim: To fund early career researchers (3-8 years Postdoctoral experience) who have the potential to become leaders in their fields.  Covers all areas of life and physical sciences, including engineering and mathematics but excluding clinical medicine and any researcher addressing a direct biomedical question.  Funding: Salary on Research Fellow scale, €15,000 research expenses in first year, €13,000 in subsequent years  Duration: 5 years, possibility of a 3 year renewal  Key Dates: 2016 call likely to launch in July 2016  Application and review process handled by the Royal Society.  Awards funded by SFI

SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership  Key aim: To fund outstanding researchers pursuing programmes of research excellence in biomedical and clinical fields.  Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowships - for researchers with no more than two years of post doc experience.Applications twice a year  Research Career Development Fellowship – for researchers with no more than seven years post doc experience. Applications three times a year  Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science – for researchers with between 7 and 12 years post doc experience. Applications three times a year  Career Re-entry Fellowship – Provide postdoctoral scientists who have had a recent break of at least two years with the opportunity to return to high-quality research

Wellcome Trust Seed Awards  Seed Awards provide responsive, flexible funding, enabling researchers to develop a novel idea to a position where they would be able to be competitive for a larger award from the Wellcome Trust, or another source.  Particularly suited to researchers at the start of their independent careers  Cannot have held substantive funding for research in the 12 months before the closing date.  Up to £100K and normally for up to two years. Cannot be used to pay own salary.  Deadlines three times a year

TIDA (Technology Innovation Development Award)  Enables researchers to focus on first steps of an applied research project which may have a commercial benefit if further developed  A Key Objective of TIDA is to prepare researchers for the next step of commercialisation e.g. EI Commercialisation Funds  Eligibility: one of (A) SFI funded; (B) Non-SFI funded (Secured grant as lead/co PI of >€200K); or (C) Working in SFI-funded lab  Must have PhD & be senior author on at least 3 publications  Funding: €100K direct costs over up to 12 months  Dr Stephen O’Driscoll

Industry Fellowship  Seeks to develop and support academic partnerships with industry  For researchers wishing to spend time in industry worldwide or for individuals from industry anywhere in the world (including Ireland) wishing to spend time in an eligible Irish Research Body Dr Phil Hemmingway

ERC Starting Grant and ERC Consolidator Grant ERC Starting Grant Eligibility: 2-7 years post PhD Funding: Up to €1.5M Duration: 5 years ERC Consolidator Grant Eligibility: 7-12 years Funding: Up to €2M Duration: 5 years Dr Graeme Horley ERC National Contact Point (Life Sciences and Physical Sciences and Engineering)

Conference and Workshop  Key Aim : To facilitate international and national conferences and workshops of strategic value hosted in the Republic of Ireland  Eligibility: Do not need to be an SFI award holder. Post-doctoral researchers are eligible to apply for funding for events that are of an appropriate scale, i.e. workshop and possibly small conferences  Must have the support of the Research Body and contract of employment with the university must be of sufficient length to allow for submission of final reports. 

SFI Fellowship Programme  Provides successful candidates with the opportunity to develop their career through experiencing and participating in first-hand, the diversity of activities carried out by a funding agency  Must be in a position to take up to 2 years (full-time) away from their current research activities  Eligibility – team member funded through a SFI award or post-doc with less than three months left on their research contract at an eligible research body.   ACTIVELY RECRUITING

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