Looking to stay updated on funding opportunities in your area?

1. Click on the green Open Calls button on the left to see currently open calls. This will also link you to open funding opportunities on the Research Management System (RMS).
2. Read our Research Bulletin which is emailed to all colleges every 2 weeks (we do issue this on a weekly basis where necessary due to increased activity activity in the national and international research landscape requiring more frequent notifications).
3. Subscribe to Research Professional and create tailored ongoing alerts for funding opportunities in your field and/or your career stage.
4. Save the links to our 2024-5 Proposal Support Team Calendar (updated 26 February 2025) (national & international- refer to Research Professional for further funding opportunities) and Horizon Europe 2024 Call Calendar (Pillar 2 Clusters & Widening).

What is Research Professional? A research funding database to which UCD subscribes and which is accessible by all UCD researchers on campus. It is also accessible to all researchers offsite with a registered account. The database has functions allowing for funding searchers and ongoing notifications, news and funding insights, information relating to previous awardees and calls for papers for conferences and journals. 

• Link: Research Professional 
• The database pulls in calls from Irish National Funding Agencies, the European Commission, UK Research Councils, US Federal Government, right down to private charities and associations.
• Searches can be carried out by discipline, subject, research area or career stage. Searches can be saved and set up as email alerts which will send relevant funding opportunities directly to your email in box. Searchers can be built, used and amended as suits each researcher.
• News content can be found by clicking on the "News" tab in the top tollbar. Here news is organised under a number of topic headings. The first page will detail the latest content along with navigation options allowing focus on a particular topic area.
• Updates on a topic such as "Europe" or "Views" can be received regularly. This is set up by navigating to the relevant topic page and clicking the 'Email me updates' button. Clicking on this is a registration for daily updates collected in a single email. If these updates are no longer required the 'Turn off updates' button can be clicked. 
• The Funding Insights function is a collection of additional news and data aimed at helping researchers decide which opportunities to apply for and to help make stronger applications. 
• The Research Professional Awards function provides information on previous award winners under various (not all) funding calls and agencies.
• The conferences section consists of detailed comprehensive information about calls for papers with deadlines regarding forthcoming conference and special issues of scholarly journals aimed at researchers looking for opportunities to present and publish their research. 
• The "Our Institution" section contains shared resources created by individuals at the institution with administrator rights such as collections of shared resources. If you are a college/school research support and would like to create and maintain such a collection of resources for your research community please contact proposalsupport@ucd.ie and we will provide guidance on how to do this.

Research Professional help documents:

• Getting started
• Funding
• News
• Advanced Opportunities Search Criteria
• Awards
• My Profile
• Funding Insight
• Award Types
• Administrator and Workgroup Editor Guide - For college and School Research Supports. Please contact the Proposal Support Team for set up

EU Funding Opportunities - Click the links to find out more

• Horizon Europe (including ERC,MSCA and Clusters)
• Search the Horizon Europe Funding and Tenders Portal
• Other EU Programmes
• ERASMUS+ and other Global opportunities

National funding opportunities - click the links below for more information

• View a full list of the main Irish Research Funders and their calls
• Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
• Enterprise Ireland (EI)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Health Research Board (HRB)
• Irish Research Council (IRC) — now Research Ireland - this section will be updated as further information is available
• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) — now Research Ireland - this section will be updated as further information is available
• Teagasc

Internal UCD Led Funding Calls - Click the link to fund out more

• Full List of schemes available  
• UCD Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund
• Output-based Research Support Scheme (OBRSS)  
• Seed Funding Scheme
• Higher Education Research Equipment Grant (HEREG) Scheme)
• Strategic and Major Initiatives Scheme. (Application closed. This scheme is currently under review).