The new facilities will serve projects in advanced materials, semiconductors and chips, high-speed communications, medical devices, geoengineering, and AI and high-performance computing.
Research Ireland and the Irish Government are to spend €17m on nine infrastructure projects across a variety of STEM fields including semiconductor advancement, medical device innovation, quantum devices and AI computing.
The new investment awards, the largest of which is for around €4.67m, are allocated to new facilities for lead researchers at Tyndall National Institute, Dublin City University, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Galway, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, University College Cork and South East Technological University.
The Government said the infrastructure funding will “enable the installation of state-of-the-art equipment and facilities across the country, strengthening Ireland’s research capacity in strategically important areas” such as advanced materials, medtech, AI, semiconductors and quantum technologies.
It said the funding scheme is “designed to ensure that Irish researchers can access the specialised equipment needed to compete on the global stage”.
