Dr Diarmuid O'Brien, CEO of Research Ireland. Image: Connor McKenna/SiliconRepublic.com
The new Rinn centres will support 577 research positions, develop more than 800 PhDs and collaborate with 17 ‘research-performing organisations’.
The Irish Government has announced a €460m investment for seven new Research Ireland centres, which will each operate under a new national research network called ‘Rinn’ – the Irish word for point, tip or headland – over the next eight years.
The seven Rinn research centres will focus on the areas of advanced therapies, AI, energy, medical devices, pharma and biopharma, quantum, and semiconductors.
The centres will support 577 research positions, develop more than 800 PhDs and collaborate with 17 “research-performing organisations” according to today’s (10 June) announcement, which took place at the RDS in Dublin.
