Research Agencies
Science Foundation Ireland [external link]
Irish Research Council [external link]
Enterprise Ireland [external link]
IDA Ireland [external link]
Health Research Board [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Report of the Research Prioritisation Steering Group (See priority areas A, B, C, D, K; p.45f) [external link]
Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (2006-13) [external link]
Science Foundation Ireland Strategic Plan – Agenda 2020 [external link]
Science, Technology and innovation: Delivering the Smart Economy [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€35 – €70 million.
Best Estimate: €48 million
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Organisations
DERI [external link]
The Innovation value Institute [external link]
The Enterprise Ireland Technology Gateway Programme [external link]
LERO [external link]
Tyndall [external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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Antenna & High Frequency Research Centre
The Antenna & High Frequency Research Centre specialises in the analysis, design and measurement of antennas and associated devices for wireless communications and medical applications.
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CeADAR
CeADAR is an industry-led technology centre initiative for innovation and applied research in the area of Data Analytics.CeADAR is developing a world-class creative environment that will foster innovation and support the development of a team of highly innovative technology professionals.
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CTVR
CTVR is Ireland’s national telecommunications research centre. The centre’s research focus is on developing dynamic wireless and optical networks which can react and adapt to changing situations and functional demands.
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Future Cities
The FuturCities project is focused on the exploitation of data from very diverse sensors, including those contributed by individuals, to enable (semi) automatic management of city-scale services such as transportation, security, business, telecommunications, water-management, and energy-supply.
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Irish Future Internet Forum and IPv6 Taskforce
The Irish Future Internet Forum and the Irish Ipv6 Task Force are both collaborative organisations established by Irish ICT organisations with a shared interest in and desire to accelerate the development of the Future Internet in Ireland.
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Irish Record Linkage, 1864-1913
This project aims to provide a comprehensive map of infant and maternal mortality for Dublin from 1864-1913.In order to link individuals, the project will create a Knowledge Platform entitled Irish Record Linkage (IRL) to enhance the research potential of individual level metadata, using best practice in Digital Archiving to facilitate the application of Linked Data technologies, and ingesting content into the Digital Repository of Ireland for long term accessibility and preservation.
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LAMP
The LAMP project aims to meet the need for the autonomic management of power distribution through applying reinforcement learning techniques to the coordination of agent-managed micro-grids.
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MoTIF
The MoTIF project aims to create thesaurus construction guidelines and a pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore. The guidelines provide information on the construction of thesauri for librarians, archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals.
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Nimbus
The Nimbus Centre at Carlow Institute of Technology is a research centre devoted to the field of networked embedded electronic systems.
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The Social Repository of Ireland
This project will determine the feasibility of developing a richly annotated archive of social media responses to major events / topics of interest in Ireland, and to preserve this archive in a trusted digital repository.
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SOCIETIES
The SOCIETIES project aims to investigate and address the gap between pervasive and social computing by designing, implementing and evaluating an open, scalable service architecture and platform for Community Smart Spaces (CSSs).
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StratAG
The SratAG project seeks to solve problems arising from the development of mobile information systems in the Future Internet of Things through designing a mobile spatial interaction (MSI) prototype for data mining and analysis within 3D sensor-web environments on today’s context-aware smartphones.
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Technologies for Embeddded Computing Centre
The Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre works extensively with companies who have requirements for ICT innovation, particularly in embedded systems.
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