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‘PRTLI Cycle 4’
Higher Education Authority
15 November 2007
PRTLI Cycle 4
– Guiding Principles
•Strategy for Science Technology and Innovation (2006)
•Research Infrastructure in Ireland (2007)
Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (2006)
National Development Plan (2007-2013)
SSTI Overarching objectives
•Expansion of the higher education research system so as to
double the output of PhD graduates by 2013
•Strengthen Government research sector in priority areas,
including sustainable food and agriculture, health, marine and
natural resources, energy and environmental research
•Promote enterprise R&D, research commercialisation and
enterprise-HE links so as to double the number of R&D
capable enterprises over the period.
SSTI Key Actions
– World Class Research
•Build on recent NDP investments to deliver a sustainable, world
class research system across the spectrum of humanities, physical
and social sciences;
•Deliver quality by increasing the number of research teams led
by internationally competitive principal investigators;
•Upgrade existing infrastructure and develop new facilities to
support research;
•Enhance postgraduate skills through a graduate schools
mechanism;
•Develop sustainable career paths for researchers;
•Enhance the mobility of researchers;
•Double the number of PhD graduates by 2013.
Research Infrastructure Review - Context
• Completion of first infrastructure and capacity
building funding round, 2000-2006
• Announcement of new national Strategy for Science,
Technology and Innovation (June ’06)
• ESFRI Roadmap exercise – FP7 infrastructures
focus (2007-2013)
• Decision: Conduct first Research Infrastructure
Review
Conclusions – System level
• Transformation occurring - transition phase
• Balancing required:
– Consolidation……
– Broadening the base…..
– Rapid development required in specific high priority areas
Sample Conclusions: Generic Infrastructure
• Facilities and Space
– Patchy landscape
• Equipment
– Maintenance, replacement and updating
• Foundation infrastructure
– E-infrastructure; generally deficient, high-end computing capability
generally weak
– Data management; data archives and repositories – early developmental
stage
– Inadequate library provision
– HEAnet cited as a strength of the national research infrastructure
• Support infrastructure
– Underpinning technical and administrative support inadequate
PRTLI Cycle 4
•Funding capacity and infrastructure development in all areas of
research
•Continue to strongly encourage greater focus by institutes on
their strengths and on existing, new and emerging potential
areas of interest
• Continue to drive effective collaboration between highereducation institutions.
• Fund the building of the physical research foundation—the
expanded and strengthened physical research infrastructure and
key personnel, and ‘core human capacity’.
PRTLI Cycle 4
• Focus on funding the early-stage flow into the researcher
“pipeline”, postgraduate students and early stage researchers
• Support the establishment of appropriate supervisory capacity for
postgraduate students. The PRTLI is the key funder of graduate
education initiatives
• Encourage transfer between the conduct of research and
enhancement of the education and training curriculum
PRTLI Cycle 4
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Outcome announced early August 2007
Capital Exchequer = €109m
Recurrent Exchequer = €121m
Over three years…..
Status: Resubmission of financial profiles
and adjusted proposals nearing completion.
PRTLI Cycle Four - 2007
• €230 million + €30 million private matching funding
• 788 new work spaces and 474 replacement spaces
• Direct funding for 400 Postgrads, Researchers & Support Staff
•10 of 16 programmes will create new Graduate Programmes
• 71% funding going to collaborative programmes
• Programmes include: Creative Arts & Media, Biophotonics,
FoodIreland, Biopharma, Nanoscience, Digital Humanities
National Graduate Programmes
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Clinician Scientist Programme
Biopharmaceuticals and Pharmacological Sciences
Cell signalling and imaging
Nanoscience and Nano-scale technologies
Environment and climate change
Creative Arts and Media
Knowledge, Innovation, Society and Space
Cycle 4;(I) National Programme on Biopharmaceutical and
Pharmacological sciences; national collaboration
between DCU, TCD, UCC and UCD
(II) IT Tallaght incorporates a no. of partnerships
including, DCU, NUIM and the AMNCH.
PRTLI Cycle 4- Nanoteire (National Nanotechnology Initiative) – DIT, DCU, CIT,
NUIG, Tyndall and CRANN.
PRTLI Cycle 4 – FoodIreland, UCC, UCD, UL
National facilities for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and
Human Dietary Intervention Studies : research into functional foods &
omega-3 rich oils
Cycle 4- National e-Infrastructure programme (E-INIS) - a
national collaborative programme between DIAS, TCD,
Other Highlights
• A Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) will manage and coordinate the increasingly complex e-resources created in the arts and
humanities. This major infrastructure is part of a wider Humanities
Serving Irish Society (HSIS) programme …..
• Facilities for LERO (software engineering centre) UL
• Network Embedded Systems (NEMBES) building and state-of-the-art
facilities to be located at CIT
• Serving Society: Management of Future Communications Networks
and Services - WIT
Further Information
Website:
www.hea.ie
Interactive Map:
www.hea.ie/PRTLI