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Science Foundation Ireland Building Partnerships between Industry and Academia
Dr. Siobhan Roche – SFI Partnerships Manager
Top level SFI information
€1.6bn
Spend and
€2bn
Committed to date in
3,750
Awards
>€2bn
Committed to date
>4,000
Awards
As of June 2014
730 Live Awards
with investments totalling
>€850m
Founded in
2000
€160m annual investment
SFI Agenda 2020
Excellence and Impact
2 To be the exemplar in building partnerships
that fund excellent
science and drive it out into the market and society
To represent the ideal
modern public
service organisation, staffed in a lean and flexible manner, with efficient and effective management.
4
3 To have the most engaged and scientifically
informed public
1 To be the Best science funding agency in the world at creating impact from excellent research and demonstrating clear value for money invested
✚ People and
technology
transfer to Industry and Society
✚ Higher value
products/services
✚ Higher living
standards
✚ Industry more
competitive, better public services
What SFI actually does
Makes grants to Higher Education
Institutes (HEIs) in Ireland
Based on competitive, international merit
review for scientific
excellence and impact
Trains people
Produces scientific
results and technology
Builds infrastructure
Significant industrial linkages
attracting,
anchoring and starting
companies
Leverages
other research
funding e.g. Industrial / EU /
Charitable/ Philanthropic/ International
What the taxpayer gets
for the investment
A research engine
of 3000 people
led by 400 leading scientists
706 Active Research Projects
world leading Research Centres spanning several HEIs and many industries
12
Generating Annually
5,790 scientific publications
1067 collaborations with 702 companies (274 MNCs, 428 SMEs)
17 spin out
companies
formed
30 licensed technologies
80 patent filings, 25 patents awarded
1,821
international
collaborations in over 60 countries
€171m
in leveraged non-SFI funding
Academia
SFI/Academia Collaborations
There are currently 900+collaborations with companies
2013: €125m from non-SFI sources
Programmes for Industry
SFI Industry
Fellowship
SFI
Partnerships
Supports personnel exchange Supports collaborative research projects of scale
SFI Spokes SFI Research Centres
Supports large scale Research Centres in areas of economic importance
Supports recruitment of new industry partners and collaborative projects to Research Centres
SFI Industry Fellowship
• Up to €120k per Fellowship
Salary, travel and subsistence of an academic researcher to spend time in industry, anywhere in the world
Travel and subsistence of industry personnel to spend time in academia in Ireland
• Up to one year full time or two years part time
• Open to Irish and international companies
• No limit on the number of Fellows in any company
• No requirement for academic Fellow to return to the Research Body
• Open rolling call with defined evaluation times
SFI Industry Fellowship
Who can apply?
• Academic partner submits application
• Must meet defined eligibility criteria
Proposal
• Aim, work plan, impact, career development prospects
• CVs
International Peer Review
• Quality of proposed fellow, work programme, potential for impact
including long term collaboration and career development
SFI Industry Fellowship 2015
• Evaluation deadlines
• 3rd June 2015 (Notifications in October)
• 3rd December 2015 (Notifications in April 2016)
• http://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/open-calls/sfi-industry-fellowship-programme-2015.html
Finding a Partner
• SFI Industry Fellowship Programme LinkedIn Group
• SFI Research Career Forum
https://www.b2match.eu/sficareerforum2014/participants
• National Research Centre Directory
http://www.knowledgetransferireland.com/About_KTI/Find-a-Research-Provider/
• Contact SFI
SFI Partnerships
• Flexible mechanism to support ambitious research projects of scale
between industry and academia
• Flexible models of collaboration
• SFI matches the investment by industry
• Competitive Joint Funding Partnership Programme
• Strategic Partnerships
http://www.sfi.ie/funding/funding-calls/open-calls/sfi-partnerships.html
Competitive Joint
Funding Partnership
• What?
Company partners with SFI to launch a new competitive funding programme
• Why?
Solicit ideas from the research community addressing industry challenges
Opportunity to leverage state funding to de-risk early stage research
Develop new industry-academic collaborations
• How?
Joint design of funding programme to meet needs of company and SFI
SFI administers programme
Fast track review
Opportunity for industry partner to engage in review of proposals
Joint decision-making process
Joint funding of successful applications
Strategic Partnership
Programme
Key aim:
To foster and develop strategic partnerships
Initiatives of scale with strong potential for delivering economic impact to Ireland
• Application prepared jointly by academic researcher and company, submitted by academic partner
• Non-competitive rolling call – can apply anytime
• 50% cash co-funding requirement
• Two stage application process
Expression of interest
Full proposal (by invitation only)
SFI Research Centres
SFI Research
Centres
SFI Research
Centres Spokes
• World leading, large scale Centres with major economic impact for Ireland
• Funding of between €1m and €5m per year in direct costs over six years
• SFI funds up to 70%. Minimum 30% industry investment at least one third of which must be cash
• 12 Centres funded, representing €355m Exchequer funding and €190m industry investment (>300 industry collaborations)
• Opportunity to become a new Industry or Academic Partner of an existing Centre
• Allows existing Centres to grow and evolve
• Fixed call: competitive assessment, 30% industry contribution
• Rolling call: proposals assessed on own merits, 50% industry cash contribution
• Minimum project size €400k, no maximum award size
SFI Research Centres: Structure
• Hub:
Core operations
Platform research
• Spokes:
Targeted projects, each with
at least one industry partner
Imperatives
1. Collaboration with industry & other
academics
2. Harnessing strengths of different
experts in different HEIs (Virtual
centre)
SFI Research Centres - ICT
Centre Focus Director
Materials Science; nano-
technology; bio-nano
Prof. Stefano Sanvito
(TCD)
Photonics systems –
communications & med-
devices
Prof Paul Townsend
(Tyndall)
Big data; data analysis,
data management;
Connected Health
Mr. Oliver Daniels
Marine renewable
energy; materials; smart
grid
Prof. Conchúr Ó Brádaigh
(UCC)
SFI Research Centres - ICT
Centre Focus Director
Unlocking Ireland’s
natural resources –
energy, minerals, water
Prof John Walsh (UCD)
Software engineering &
development
Prof. Mike Hinchey (UL)
Aims to create the
future networks on
which all the various
services can be enabled
Prof Linda Doyle (TCD)
Aims to develop better
ways manage and
control digital content
Prof Vinny Wade (TCD)
SFI Research Centres - Lifesciences
Centre Focus Director
Food for health;
pharamabiotics
Prof. Fergus Shanahan (UCC)
Perinatal health Profs. Louise Kenny & Geraldine
Boylan (UCC)
Pharmaceutical
production chain:
synthesis, isolation and
formulation
Prof. Kieran Hodnett (UL)
Medical Devices:
biomedical implants,
cell-device and drug-
device combination
products
Prof. Abhay Pandit (NUIG)
Programmes for Industry
SFI Industry
Fellowship
SFI
Partnerships
Supports personnel exchange Supports collaborative research projects of scale
SFI Spokes SFI Research Centres
Supports large scale Research Centres in areas of economic importance
Supports recruitment of new industry partners and collaborative projects to Research Centres
Thank you for your interest Siobhan Roche, PhD Partnerships Manager Programmes Directorate Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Wilton Park House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2 T: +353 1 607 3067 | F: +353 1 607 3201 | E: [email protected] | W: www.sfi.ie Science Foundation Ireland – Research for Ireland’s Future
SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDES
Intellectual Property
• National IP Framework
Putting public research to work for Ireland Document
• Ensure a streamlined and transparent process by which industry interacts with RPO’s
• Balance the needs of industry and the State
• RPO ownership of research that is partly or fully funded by the state
• Industry partner can negotiate preferential access to IP subject to a minimum cash
commitment
• Industry partner owns IP in contract research undertakings
• Ownership of background IP protected
Centre Title
Director Professor John J. Walsh
Lead Institution University College Dublin
Research Programme Description
The Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG) brings together a team of internationally leading researchers representing the full geosciences spectrum with a clear focus on the wider economic impact of the geosciences sector in Ireland. iCRAG’s research programme comprises four cohesive topics or ‘spokes’ in the areas of raw materials, marine, groundwater and hydrocarbons, which are built around four enabling technology and equipment based ’platforms’ which focus on geophysical sensing and imaging, geochemistry, 3D geological modelling and public perception and understanding. iCRAG’s research focusses on finding solutions for problems such as: • safe and secure groundwater supplies • the discovery of mineral and aggregate deposits • de-risking of oil and gas exploration.
Academic Partners Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, NUI Maynooth and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Budget & Research Team Size
€30.1m (€19.4m SFI + €10.7m Industry) Large: 50+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
Raw Materials and Groundwater Marine and Hydrocarbons
Boliden Geoscience Ireland PIPCO
International Lithium Corporation AGEC Atlantic Petroleum
Lundin APEX Cairn Energy
Teck Ireland AWN Consulting Chevron
Trevali Mining Corp. BRG ENI
SRK Consulting Byrne Looby Partners Europa Oil and Gas
Eurostone Coastway ExxonMobil
Homebond F.L.I. Group Husky Energy
David Ball Associates GDG Kosmos Energy
Geoserv IGSL Maersk Oil
NRA (National Roads Authority) Irish Drilling Providence Resources
Tobin Consulting Engineers J.B. Barry & Partners Repsol Exploration
PIPCO Meehan Drilling San Leon Energy
Nicholas O’Dwyer Serica Energy
Priority Drilling Shell
Priority Geotechnical Sosina
Sorhill Advocates Pty QME Tullow Oil
Verde Environmental Group SLR Woodside Energy
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Balz Kamber TCD • Prof. Chris Bean DIAS • Prof. Peter Croot NUIG • Prof. Laurence Gill TCD • Prof. Peter Haughton UCD • Prof. Frank McDermott UCD • Prof. Pat Shannon UCD • Prof. Andy Wheeler UCC
Contact Details Name: Prof. John J. Walsh Telephone: +353(1)7162169 Email: [email protected] Web: icrag‐centre.org
Centre Title
Director Prof. Mike Hinchey
Lead Institution University of Limerick
Research Programme Description
Lero’s research programme is informed by three long-term trends: software is everywhere and our quality of life and economic well-being depend on it; the digital and physical worlds are increasingly integrated; and software-intensive systems must be always-on, yet continuously changing. These trends are significantly impacting key Irish industry sectors, such as manufacturing, medical devices, financial services, cloud computing, analytics, and smart cities. Hence, Lero’s research mission is to replicate the success of traditional software engineering in the context of large-scale, pervasive, physically-integrated, highly interconnected, evolving, and continuously-available systems, in which the boundary between design-time and runtime is disappearing. Lero’s research focuses on the tools, methods and best practices required to maintain software development leadership in this climate of accelerating change.
Academic Partners Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Maynooth University, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin
Budget & Research Team Size
€41 Million (24.7m SFI 16.3m industry) Large: 197
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
ACI Worldwide FTL Group
Aerogen Hewlett Packard
Allstate Insurance (NI) IBM
Almir Business Information Mosaic
Bluebridge Technologies Microsoft
dabl Ocuco
Dell Portable Medical Technology
DMF Systems S3 Group
Drop Technology SQS
Ericsson United Technologies Research Centre
Fijowave
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, Chief Scientist (UL) • Prof. Liam Bannon (UL) • Prof. Mathew Hennessy (TCD) • Prof. Tiziana Margaria (UL) • Prof. Joao Marques-Silva (UCD) • Prof. John Murphy (UCD) • Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh (UL) • Prof. Gregory Provan (UCC)
Contact Details Name: Brendan O’Malley Telephone: + 353 (0)61 202484 Email: [email protected] Web: www.lero.ie
Centre Title Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM)
Director Prof. Abhay Pandit
Lead Institution National University of Ireland, Galway
Research Programme Description
The objective for CÚRAM is to radically improve health outcomes for patients by developing innovative implantable medical devices. Devices will be developed with strong clinical collaborations, with industry partners and hospital groups, to enable rapid translation to the clinic.
CÚRAM will design and create implantable ‘smart’ medical devices. Implants will be designed and manufactured to respond to the body’s environment and to deliver therapeutic agents, such as drugs, exactly where needed. CÚRAM’s outputs will particularly benefit patients with chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and musculoskeletal diseases.
Research areas include:
• Combinational and advanced delivery devices • Enhancement of current implants and devices • Design of devices • Characterisation of implants and devices • Clinical translation of selected CÚRAM technologies
Academic Partners University College Dublin, University College Cork, Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Budget & Research Team Size
www.sfi.ie
€41.3m (€28.8m SFI + €12.5m Industry) Large: 200+
Industry Partners 38 Industry Partners (30 SMEs and 8 MNCs) including the following:
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. David Brayden • Prof. Lokesh Joshi • Prof. Tim O’Brien
UCD NUI Galway NUI Galway
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Prof. Abhay Pandit +353 (0)91 492758 [email protected] http://www.devices.ie
Centre Title CONNECT
Director Linda Doyle
Lead Institution Trinity College Dublin
Research Programme Description
The CONNECT Centre for Future Networks & Communications will solve multi-faceted scientific and engineering challenges relating to the design of flexible and responsive future communications networks. We envisage networks of the future as systems of highly heterogeneous connections between sensors, mobile devices, access points and smart nodes, which are performed into existence in response to a service need, creating the ultimate service-aware network. Central to our vision is the idea of open communications: we will design network infrastructure that is shared by unlimited virtual operators supporting specialised services. This infrastructure will be able to seamlessly handle everything from light-weight IoT services, to media-rich applications, to mobile services. We will take a system-wide, end-to-end view, considering challenges from the service, the network and the underlying physical perspectives. We will create a virtualized and programmable network substrate, in which distributed software services directly configure networking functionality to meet their needs. We will push resource sharing to the extreme, throughout the network. We will design smart sensors, sophisticated processing-intensive intelligent nodes and complex infrastructural elements that are responsive to the service and network needs. Our vision will be exemplified via a range of targeted projects co-designed with our extensive team of industry partners.
Academic Partners Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin City University (DCU), National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), University College Dublin (UCD), Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG), Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), University College Cork (UCC), Tyndall National Institute (Tyndall) & University of Limerick (UL)
Budget & Research Team Size
€52.5m (€23.8m SFI & €28.7m Industry & Cash) Large: 177
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Max Ammann (DIT) • Prof. Luiz Da Silva (TCD) • Prof. Michael Peter Kennedy (UCC) • Prof. Cian O’ Mathúna (Tyndall) • Prof. Cormac J. Sreenan (UCC) • Prof. Tom Brazil (UCD) • Dr. Willie Donnelly (TSSG) • Prof. Doug Leith (TCD) • Prof. Dave Payne (TCD)
Contact Details Name: Catherine Keogh Telephone: +353 (0)1-896-8441 Email: [email protected] Web: www.connectcentre.ie www.ctvr.ie
Centre Title ADAPT
Director Professor Vincent Wade
Lead Institution Trinity College Dublin
Research Programme Description
We live in a world of global digital connectivity where enterprises, communities and individuals are sharing information and content and communicating globally at incredible speed, in enormous volumes, across the world’s languages and over an ever-increasing number of devices. The ADAPT Centre empowers people, companies and communities to achieve unprecedented engagement across digital content and multimodal interaction. ADAPT empowers people and communities by enabling: deeper understanding of multilingual content by significant advances in multilingual language processing; dynamic transformation of content to break down language and cultural barriers; personalisation of the user experience to ensure rapid assimilation and reuse of content; and multimodal/multimedia interaction with global content for contextualised discovery, communication and interaction. ADAPT innovations can help businesses to analyse, personalise and deliver digital content more effectively to drive business in the digital age. ADAPT research is fundamentally changing the way in which enterprises, communities and individuals can engage globally in real time. ADAPT enhances efficiencies and global reach for industry partners in key priority sectors for Ireland, including ICT, localisation, financial services, eCommerce, media, entertainment and games, life sciences, digital culture and humanities, and eLearning/eEducation.
Academic Partners Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, University College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€49.9m (€23.8 SFI + €26.1m Industry). Large : 127
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
Acrolin
Moravia
AOL ovartis
C CO
DRC
Commetric
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eBay
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BD
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Huawei
istaT C
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elocali e
ntel
anadu
Microsoft
celerator
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Andy Way • Prof. Nick Campbell • Prof. Qun Liu • Dr. Gareth Jones • Prof. Owen Conlan • rof. Declan O’ ullivan • Prof. David Lewis
www.sfi.ie
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Vincent Wade +353 1 8961765 [email protected] www.adaptcentre.ie
Centre Title Advanced Materials and Bio-Engineering Research (AMBER)
Director (Interim) Prof. Stefano Sanvito
Lead Institution Trinity College Dublin
Research Programme Description
The Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research (AMBER) Centre delivers internationally-leading materials research which is industrially and clinically informed. The research is translated to have direct impact on devices and products in the ICT, Medical Devices and Industrial Technology sectors. Research activities include: • improving our understanding of existing materials • exploring novel ways to deposit, pattern, structure and package these materials and translate
their benefits to deliver products to the ICT and medical device sectors • innovative materials research for applications such as filtration, packaging, memory and drug
delivery The centre comprises of a team of leading international researchers from areas such as nanoscience, material science, physics, chemistry, medicine, immunology, pharmacology and bioengineering.
Academic Partners Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, University College Cork
Budget & Research Team Size
Large: 100+ €50.5m (€27.3m SFI + €23.2m Industry)
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators • Prof. Michael Coey TCD
• Prof. Jonathan Coleman TCD
• Prof. Georg Duesberg TCD
• Prof. Michael Morris UCC
• Prof. Justin Holmes UCC
• Prof. Daniel Kelly TCD
• Prof. ergal O’Brien RC
• Prof. Valeria Nicolosi TCD
• Prof. John Boland TCD
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Prof. Stefano Sanvito +353-(0)1-896-3065 [email protected] http://www.ambercentre.ie/
Centre Title Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC)
Director Professor Fergus Shanahan
Lead Institution University College Cork
Research Programme Description
The overall focus of APC is to investigate the role of the gut microbiotia in human health and disease. The APC focuses on the following thematic areas: 1. Mining the gut microbiota for novel bioactives, including bacteriocins, probiotics, prebiotics and
bacteriophages 2. The role of the gut microbiota at the extremes of life; determining the mechanistic links between
diet, microbiota composition and health status in infants, elderly, athletes etc 3. The role of the gut microbiota in the brain-gut axis; examining the relationship between the gut
microbiota and brain function e.g. stress, cognitive function, IBS 4. The role of the GI microbiota in host-microbe dialogue; identify mechanisms used by microbiota to
regulate the host immune system & gut epithelium homeostasis and investigate intestinal inflammation
Academic Partners Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre Cork Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
Large: 150 €42.6m (€27.9m SFI + €14.7m Industry)
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners 13 Companies from the Food, Biotech, Diagnostics and Pharma sectors
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Gerald Fitzgerald UCC
• Prof. Paul Ross UCC
• Dr. Catherine Stanton Teagasc
• Prof. Colin Hill UCC
• Prof. Ted Dinan UCC
• Prof. John Cryan UCC
• Dr. aul O’Toole UCC
• Prof. Douwe van Sinderen UCC
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Professor Fergus Shanahan +353 (0)21 4901226 [email protected] http://apc.ucc.ie/
Centre Title Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT)
Director Prof. Louise Kenny, Prof. Geraldine Boylan
Lead Institution University College Cork
Research Programme Description
• Biomarkers for screening and diagnostics in pregnancy
• Innovative cot-side monitoring
• Perinatal clinical trials centre
• Major thematic areas:
1. The INFANT Biobank: Investing in our future 2. Predict to Prevent: Creating safer pregnancies for lifelong health 3. Innovative cot-side monitoring 4. Neonatal risk prediction 5. Protecting the pre-term brain 6. Perinatal clinical trials: INFANT as a global hub for data and biobanking 7. Infant and maternal nutrition 8. Connected Health: Mobilising perinatal healthcare to the community and the home
Academic Partners Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
Budget & Research Team Size
€11.9m (€5.9m SFI + €6.0m Industry)
Medium: 11 – 49
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Industry Partners
Waters Corporation
IBM
Incereb
Inspiration Healthcare
Kvikna
Nihon Kohden
BrepCo Pharmaceutical
Alere
MedSci Net
Newsweaver
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators • Prof. Eugene Dempsey UCC
• Prof. David Henshall RCSI
• Dr. Liam Marnane UCC
• Dr. Deirdre Murray UCC
• Dr. Gordon Lightbody UCC
• Prof. Frederic Adams UCC
• Dr. Mairead Kiely UCC
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Prof. Louise Kenny +353 (0)21 420 5023 [email protected] http://www.infantcentre.ie/
Centre Title Insight
Director Mr. Oliver Daniels
Lead Institution(s) University College Dublin University College Cork Dublin City University National University of Ireland, Galway.
Research Programme Description
• Big Data Analytics
• Capture, organise, and crucially understand, this torrent of data that is the basis for competition and growth within the global economy.
• Apply Big Data techniques in the areas of:
• Connected Health • The Discovery Economy
• Insight brings together five major Irish research centres: CLARITY, DERI, Clique, 4C and TRIL
Academic Partners Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Tyndall Institute, Royal Irish Academy.
Budget & Research Team Size
€75.1m (€44.4m SFI + €30.7m Industry)
Large: 100+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Abtran Ltd.
Microsoft
Adoreboard
Nitrosell
Avego RTE
Cisco Rubicoin
Citibank Shimmer Research
Eagle Alpha Starwood
Elsevier Stryker
Flashpoint Treemetrics
IRFU
UTRC
Irish Times
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators • Prof. Barry Smyth UCD
• Prof. Alan Smeaton DCU
• Prof. Brian Caulfield UCD
• Prof. Padraig Cunningham UCD
• Prof. Stefan Decker NUIG
• Prof. Barry O'Sullivan UCC
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Mr. Oliver Daniels (CEO) Mr. Mike Turley (COO) +353-(0)91-495-009 +353-(0)91-495-010 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.insight-centre.org/ http://www.insight-centre.org/
Centre Title Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC)
Director Prof Paul Townsend
Lead Institution Tyndall National Institute, UCC
Research Programme Description
The Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC) brings together over 100 researchers from four institutes to develop new light-enabled technologies. Targeting the ICT and medical devices sectors, IPIC is working with 18 industry partners to develop the next generation of highly-compact and miniaturised photonics devices. The Centre’s work is focused on: • Enabling continued growth of the internet through faster more energy efficient devices for
information transport, storage and display. • Delivering smart medical devices for improved diagnosis and treatment of disease through the
integration of photonics onto surgical instruments and into compact high sensitivity analysis equipment.
• Developing systems for food and environment monitoring.
Academic Partners University College Cork, Dublin City University, Cork Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
€24.5m (€16.2m SFI + €8.3m Industry) Large: 50+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Intel Lake Region
British Telecom Somex
M/A-COM InfiniLED
Finisar Radisens Diagonstics
Firecomms Luxcel Biosciences
X-Celeprint Eblana
Pilot Photonics Stryker
Seagate Epi-light
Huawei
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators • Prof. Liam Barry DCU
• Dr. Frank Peters Tyndall
• Dr. Emanuele Pelucchi Tyndall
• Brian Corbett Tyndall
• Dr. Guillaume Huyet Tyndall
• Dr. eter O’ Brien Tyndall
• Prof. Eoin .O’Reilly Tyndall
• Prof. Colette McDonagh DCU
• Prof. Dmitri Papkovsky UCC
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Prof. Paul Townsend +353-(0)21-490 4857 [email protected] http://www.ipic.ie/
Centre Title Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI)
Director rofessor Conchúr Ó’Brádaigh
Lead Institution University College Cork
Research Programme Description
The Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre will develop the science required by industry to generate energy from wave, tidal and floating wind devices. Societal impact will include a route to achieving binding renewable energy targets for Ireland and an approach to maximising the value and security of reland’s national renewable energy portfolio. MaREI will carry out 22 fundamental science projects and a further 51 joint industry projects related to a wide range of challenges including:
• Operations, maintenance and reliability of marine renewable energy (MRE) devices. • Enabling large-scale deployment of MRE devices. • Connection of MRE devices to the national grid. • Novel methods for storing the energy generated by MRE devices. • Related marine governance, planning, economics and environmental issues.
MaREI will be shared between third-level institutions in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Maynooth, in collaboration with more than 40 industry partners.
Academic Partners University College Cork (UCC), University of Limerick (UL), NUIG Galway (NUIG), NUI Maynooth (NUIM), University College Dublin (UCD), Cork Institute of Technology (CIT)
Budget & Research Team Size
€25m (€14.7m SFI + €10.3m Industry)
Large: 50+
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
AQUAFACT Global Renewable Solutions Ltd. Shell E&P Ireland Ltd.
Automsoft IDS Monitoring Ltd. SkySails GmbH.
Brí Toinne Teoranta Marine Harvest SonarSIM
B9 Energy Marsh Technology Ltd. SSE Renewables
Commissioners of Irish Lights McCormacks of Ardagh Technology From Ideas (tfi)
DePuy MYMIC LLC. TechWorks Marine
DP Energy Ireland Ltd. Pure Marine Gen. Teledyne BlueView Inc.
Ecoventi REALSIM Ltd. Teledyne RESON Inc.
Enerco Energy Ltd. Resilience Energy Ltd. WECCA
ESBI Shannon Foynes Port Company
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators
• Prof. Tony Lewis UCC
• Prof. Frederic Dias UCD
• Dr. Michael Hartnett NUIG
• Dr. Gordon Lightbody UCC
• Dr. Jerry Murphy UCC
• Dr. Eamon McKeogh UCC
• Prof. John Ringwood NUIM
• Dr. Daniel Toal UL
Contact Details Name: Professor Conchúr Ó Brádaigh
Telephone: +353-(0)21-4250022/4250021
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.marei.ie/
Centre Title Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC)
Director Prof. Kieran Hodnett
Lead Institution University of Limerick
Research Programme Description
The Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC) will carry out research spanning the entire pharmaceutical chain, ranging from molecules to medicines, with the overarching objective to better understand mechanisms, control processes and predict outcomes for the efficient and environmentally sustainable production of safe medicines. The Centre will focus on three key areas: • New Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Synthesis • Crystal Growth and Design • Drug Product Formulation and Manufacture
Academic Partners University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, National University of Ireland Galway, Dublin City University, Athlone Institute of Technology, Waterford Institute of Technology
Budget & Research Team Size
Large: 50+ €31.8m (€22.0m SFI + €9.8m Industry)
www.sfi.ie
Industry Partners
Pfizer GlaxoSmithKline
Eli Lilly SA Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Merck Sharpe & Dohme
Bristol Myers Squibb Roche Ireland
Alkermes Abbvie
UCB (Schwarz Pharma) APC Limited
Scale-Up Systems Clarochem Ireland
Innopharma Labs Eirgen Pharma Ltd
Glantreo Amebis
www.sfi.ie
Co-Principal Investigators • Prof. Martin Albrecht UCD
• Prof. Stephen Connon TCD
• Prof. Alan Dobson UCC
• Prof. Brian Glennon UCD
• Prof. Pat Guiry UCD
• Dr. Anne Marie Healy TCD
• Prof. Anita R. Maguire UCC
• Prof. Åke Rasmuson UL
• Prof. Gavin Walker UL
Contact Details Name: Telephone: Email: Web:
Prof. Kieran Hodnett +353-(0)61-202-246 [email protected] http://www.ul.ie/sspc/