Funding Opportunities
Funding Opportunities
Two UCD Sustainability Seed Funding schemes were launched in March 2024 to support interdisciplinary collaboration to address sustainability challenges and to seed new sustainability initiatives.
Sustainability Research Seed Funding Scheme for research, innovation and impact
The Sustainability Research Seed Funding scheme aims to stimulate and support interdisciplinary sustainability research, innovation and impact by UCD researchers and their colleagues, collaborators and stakeholders. It offers practical ‘seed’ support for projects that are ambitious and strategic, as well as those that lead to new knowledge, clusters and capabilities.
Seed Funding for Sustainability Initiatives
The Seed Funding for Sustainability Initiatives scheme seeks to bring the university community together to unlock the campus’ potential as a living lab for sustainability solutions. The scheme will support sustainability projects, ideas and initiatives that are innovative, replicable and scalable, and which arise from any part of the university community.
The first cohort of projects and initiatives was launched in September 2024. There will be a second call under the Sustainability Initiatives scheme, but not under the Sustainability Research scheme. Additional schemes will be announced in due course.
These seed funding schemes are supported by Performance Funding from the Higher Education Authority (HEA).