{"id":492974,"date":"2026-06-10T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492974\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:24:14","slug":"state-to-invest-e460m-to-set-up-seven-advanced-tech-research-centres-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492974\/","title":{"rendered":"State to invest \u20ac460m to set up seven advanced tech research centres \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The State is to invest \u20ac460 million to set up seven advanced tech research centres under a new national research network, Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n

The national research network, to be labelled Rinn, will focus on the fields of advanced therapies, artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI), energy, medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceutics, quantum computing and semiconductors.<\/p>\n

The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science<\/a> said the allocation will fund 577 research positions and create 800 PhD positions.<\/p>\n

The network will involve 17 institutions including Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin City University (DCU), University College Dublin, University College Cork, Ireland\u2019s technological universities and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.<\/p>\n

As well as universities, the research network will include the Cork-based Tyndall National Institute information communications technology research lab and the Belfield-based National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training.<\/p>\n

DCU\u2019s Prof Noel O\u2019Connor will head the Rinn Artificial Intelligence research centre, which is set to receive \u20ac121.8 million in funding and will be co-ordinated by five of the State\u2019s largest universities.<\/p>\n

TCD\u202fwill co-ordinate the centre focusing on advanced therapies, which is set to get \u20ac51.1 million in funding.<\/p>\n

The Rinn research centre specialising in Ireland\u2019s main foreign export, the pharmaceutical sector, will be set up at a cost of \u20ac60.3 million. It will be co-ordinated by the University of Limerick.<\/p>\n

The Rinn Semiconductors centre will get an allocation of \u20ac71 million and drive research into semiconductor systems.<\/p>\n

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Rinn Energy has been awarded \u20ac51.8 million in research funding; Rinn Medical Devices will be allocated nearly \u20ac64.5 million; and a research centre specialising in quantum computing will get \u20ac39.6 million.<\/p>\n

Announcing the funding, the Minister said the research network would receive an additional \u20ac500 million in industry funding.<\/p>\n

This would be comprised of more than 200 industry partners, including more than 100 multinational corporations and nearly 100 small and medium sized businesses.<\/p>\n

Lawless described the \u201cscale and scope\u201d of the research funding as a \u201cpowerful statement of Ireland\u2019s ambition in research and innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the seven Rinn research centres would contribute to \u201cattracting foreign direct investment<\/a>\u201d and would advance the growth of indigenous industries in key areas. <\/p>\n

The investment, the Minister said, would help to keep Ireland competitive internationally.<\/p>\n

The department said a \u201crigorous, multi-stage evaluation process by independent international experts\u201d took place before the announcement. The seven centres will start activities on July 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The State is to invest \u20ac460 million to set up seven advanced tech research centres under a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[218,72,16179,58340,61,60,17162,8877,15342,211667,5762],"class_list":["post-492974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-dcu","tag-department-of-further-and-higher-education-research-innovation-and-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-lawless","tag-pharma","tag-trinity-college-dublin-tcd","tag-tyndall-national-institute","tag-ucd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}