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Science Foundation IrelandEarly Career Researcher Forum, September 2015Dr Eimear Holohan
Early-Mid Career Opportunities
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 +
Years post-PhD (approx.)
SFI SIRG
Royal Society-SFI URFTransitioning 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
PROGRAMME Est. Launch Est. DecisionSFI Starting Investigator Researcher Grant Q3 2015 Q2 2016SFI Career Development Award Q3 2015 Q2 2016SFI President of Ireland Young Researcher Award RollingSFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust (WT) Biomedical Research Partnership
WT deadlines
SFI-Royal Society University Research Fellowship RS deadlines
SFI Fellowship Programme Rolling
SFI Industry Fellowship (2 deadlines per year) Q 1 2015 Q4 2015 / Q2 2016SFI / EI Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) Q 1 2015 Q4 2015
SFI Conferences and Workshops Rolling
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 AwardFor 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 25th September Deadline for submission of applications 26th 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 2nd October Deadline for submission of applications 10th December
Must have received PhD in last 3 to 15 years & hold an independent position
Funding: €300k - €500k over 4 years
[email protected] 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
[email protected] 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 Q4 2015 with a deadline in Q1 2016.
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 [email protected]
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
See further details (Call Document, FAQ Document, Webinar etc.) on SFI’s webpage
www.sfi.ie Contact – programme specific inboxes or [email protected]
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