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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

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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

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


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


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

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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

https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/EI_Corporate/en/Research-Innovation/Companies/IPP-Putting-public-research-to-work-for-Ireland.pdf

https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/EI_Corporate/en/Research-Innovation/Companies/IPP-Putting-public-research-to-work-for-Ireland.pdf

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+

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Industry Partners

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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


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


€41 Million (24.7m SFI 16.3m industry) Large: 197

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Industry Partners

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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


• 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

http://www.lero.ie/

Centre Title Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM)

Director Prof. Abhay Pandit

Lead Institution National University of Ireland, Galway


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


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Industry Partners 38 Industry Partners (30 SMEs and 8 MNCs) including the following:

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• 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

http://www.devices.ie/

Centre Title CONNECT

Director Linda Doyle

Lead Institution Trinity College Dublin


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)


€52.5m (€23.8m SFI & €28.7m Industry & Cash) Large: 177

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Industry Partners

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• 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

http://www.connectcentre.ie/

http://www.ctvr.ie/

Centre Title ADAPT

Director Professor Vincent Wade



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


€49.9m (€23.8 SFI + €26.1m Industry). Large : 127

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Industry Partners

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Acrolin

Moravia

AOL ovartis

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DRC

Commetric

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eBay

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Huawei

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Microsoft

celerator


• Prof. Andy Way • Prof. Nick Campbell • Prof. Qun Liu • Dr. Gareth Jones • Prof. Owen Conlan • rof. Declan O’ ullivan • Prof. David Lewis

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Vincent Wade +353 1 8961765 [email protected] www.adaptcentre.ie

http://www.adaptcentre.ie/

Centre Title Advanced Materials and Bio-Engineering Research (AMBER)

Director (Interim) Prof. Stefano Sanvito



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


Large: 100+ €50.5m (€27.3m SFI + €23.2m Industry)

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Industry Partners

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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


Prof. Stefano Sanvito +353-(0)1-896-3065 [email protected] http://www.ambercentre.ie/


http://www.crann.tcd.ie/

Centre Title Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC)

Director Professor Fergus Shanahan

Lead Institution University College Cork


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


Large: 150 €42.6m (€27.9m SFI + €14.7m Industry)

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Industry Partners 13 Companies from the Food, Biotech, Diagnostics and Pharma sectors

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• 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


Professor Fergus Shanahan +353 (0)21 4901226 [email protected] http://apc.ucc.ie/


http://apc.ucc.ie/

Centre Title Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT)

Director Prof. Louise Kenny, Prof. Geraldine Boylan



• 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


€11.9m (€5.9m SFI + €6.0m Industry)

Medium: 11 – 49

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Industry Partners

Industry Partners

Waters Corporation

IBM

Incereb

Inspiration Healthcare

Kvikna

Nihon Kohden

BrepCo Pharmaceutical

Alere

MedSci Net

Newsweaver

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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


Prof. Louise Kenny +353 (0)21 420 5023 [email protected] http://www.infantcentre.ie/


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.


• 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.


€75.1m (€44.4m SFI + €30.7m Industry)

Large: 100+

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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

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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


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/

http://www.insight-centre.org/






Centre Title Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC)

Director Prof Paul Townsend

Lead Institution Tyndall National Institute, UCC


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



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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

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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


Prof. Paul Townsend +353-(0)21-490 4857 [email protected] http://www.ipic.ie/


http://www.ipic.ie/

Centre Title Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI)

Director rofessor Conchúr Ó’Brádaigh



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)


€25m (€14.7m SFI + €10.3m Industry)

Large: 50+

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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

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• 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/


http://www.marei.ie/

Centre Title Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC)

Director Prof. Kieran Hodnett

Lead Institution University of Limerick


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


Large: 50+ €31.8m (€22.0m SFI + €9.8m Industry)

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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

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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


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