Awards and Funding - News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

School of Engineering has six projects shortlisted for national climate challenge fund

The six teams were short-listed among a group of 26 teams for their exciting proposals to create real-world solutions to support Ireland’s drive towards climate neutrality by 2050.

16 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science

Twelve projects awarded Irish Research Council ‘New Foundations’ funding

New Foundations awards are designed to help civic society organisations and Government departments to devise evidence-based strategies and policies.

16 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Society

Provost's Innovation Challenge 2023

Another successful Provost Innovation Challenge at Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace where students tackled the topic: Student Accommodation

15 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Community|Innovation

Orla Hardiman wins eminent HRB Impact Award 2023

The award recognises how Professor Hardiman's exceptional contribution to research has informed policy and practice in a way that positively impacts both the care and well-being of patients living with neurodegenerative conditions and their families.

10 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

New research consortium aims to explain quantum measurement

The project is jointly led by Maximilian Lock and Nicolai Friis in Vienna and Felix Binder, who leads the Quantum Information Theory Group in Trinity’s School of Physics in Dublin.

7 Feb 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Professor Cliona O’Farrelly named 2022 AAAS Fellow

Cliona has been honoured for her outstanding achievements as a researcher in the field of comparative immunology.

31 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant awards

Drs Sarah Doyle and Marius de Leeuw have been successful in the latest round of results, which have been released today. They will explore how we can harness our immune system to fight blindness and seek models that could help us understand and explore uncharted sub-fields of physics.

31 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Trinity duo win ERC Proof of Concept grants

Drs Sarah McCormack and David Finlay have won highly competitive Proof of Concept grants and will now use the funds to take their ground-breaking research ideas towards exciting, impactful innovations.

24 Jan 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Provost's Fellowship in Curating 2022-23

The Douglas Hyde is delighted to welcome Aisling Clark to the team as the second Provost’s Curatorial Fellow. Established in 2020, the Provost’s Fellowship in Curating offers recent graduates of Trinity College Dublin the opportunity to work within The Douglas Hyde over a period of twelve months.

18 Jan 2023

Arts|Awards and Funding

Trinity researchers receive SFI Research Infrastructure awards

The SFI Research Infrastructure Programme facilitates broad usage across Ireland and to encourage partnerships and collaboration between different cohorts of researchers in Ireland.

29 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Accessible digital skills education programme for adults with intellectual disability continues to grow

Researchers from Trinity, who are spearheading an accessible digital skills education programme that will support better health and social inclusion outcomes for adults with intellectual disabilities, have international plans for 2023 – with a roadshow in the UK an early highlight.

26 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research|Society

Trinity researchers and staff honoured in IRC 'Research Ally' awards

Nine Trinity researchers and members of staff were honoured in the ‘Research Ally’ category at this year’s Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year awards.

6 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

Five students receive first Three Ireland Connect to STEM scholarships for women

Administered by the Faculty of STEM and Trinity Access and worth €20,000 each over a four-year undergraduate degree programme, the scholarship scheme to benefit 25 students in total aims to attract women from Ireland to study STEM subjects at Trinity.

6 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Community|Innovation|Students

Trinity spinouts celebrate Knowledge Transfer Ireland Awards success

Trinity spinouts SilverCloud Health and ProVerum Medical secured the Commercialisation Impact and People’s Choice awards respectively when the annual Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards ceremony took place this week.

2 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Four exceptional individuals receive honorary degrees at Trinity

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre CEO Noeline Blackwell, artist Dorothy Cross, theologian David Ford and the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian newspaper Alan Rusbridger were conferred today with honorary degrees of the University of Dublin at Trinity College Dublin.

2 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding|Culture|Society|Students

Trinity project among 8 announced in Government’s Shared Island initiative

A project focusing on cultural engagement led by Dr Steven Hadley, School of Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin, has been named today in the announcement of the Shared Island strand of the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations programme.

1 Dec 2022

Awards and Funding

Three Trinity Schools achieve Athena SWAN Bronze Awards

Trinity College Dublin's School of English, School of Religion, Theology and Peace Studies and School of Medicine have recently been conferred with Athena SWAN Bronze awards at an award ceremony in Atlantic Technological University in Mayo.

30 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding

Trinity trio win Royal Society University Research Fellowships

Three researchers – Drs Lara McManus, Mark Mitchison and Matthew Walters – have won highly competitive Royal Society University Research Fellowships that will help them build their research careers at Trinity.

25 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Research

School of Medicine celebrates six HRB Knowledge Transfer Awards

The School scooped six awards across a range of disciplines in the latest round of funding from the Health Research Board (HRB).

24 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Trinity Sport Scholars celebrated at Dining Hall Ceremony

Linda Doyle, Provost, Trinity College Dublin said: “It is impressive to see how the students balance their commitment to sport with their commitment to their studies"

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Students

Three Trinity researchers win prestigious European Research Council Starting Grants

Dr Kenneth Silver, Dr Colm Delaney and Dr Elaine Corbett were among just seven researchers in Ireland to receive the coveted awards worth up to €5 million from the ERC.

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Business|Research|Science

Orla Hardiman named 2022 SFI Researcher of the Year

Trinity researchers won three of nine awards at the 2022 SFI Summit event to celebrate the best of Irish research.

22 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland team awarded prestigious Ellis Prize

The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) has awarded the prestigious Ellis Prize to the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Considered the ‘Oscar’ for the recordkeeping sector, the award has been given for only the tenth time in 50 years.

21 Nov 2022

Arts|Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal recipients announced

The 2023 Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities has been awarded to Jane Ohlmeyer MRIA and the 2023 Academy Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences has been awarded to Jonathan Coleman MRIA.

18 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding

New project will equip police with advanced technologies to combat disinformation linked to crime

VIGILANT is a €4 million Horizon Europe project aimed at curbing the spread of disinformation and combating its negative effects such as promoting hate speech, human trafficking, and bogus medical cures.

16 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Incredible difference-making researchers and inventors honoured at Trinity Innovation Awards

Trinity’s leading researchers and inventors have been recognised for their innovative research and entrepreneurship at the 2022 Trinity Innovation Awards. Orla Hardiman, Professor of Neurology, received the headline Provost Innovation Award, while Werner Blau, Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics, won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

8 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Trinity physicist to lead €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project

Professor Mark Mitchison has won an EU Quantum Technologies Flagship research grant worth €2.9 million. He will lead a team of researchers seeking to understand nature’s timekeeping limitations and querying whether precision measurements can be more energy efficient.

1 Nov 2022

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

ProMotion Rewards secures €725,000 pre-seed investment

Pharmacy graduates and former Tangent LaunchBox winners (2020), Bidemi Afolabi and Lauren O’Reilly created ProMotion Rewards to help brands understand consumer behaviours.

24 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students

Trinity College Dublin honours 10 notable alumni with awards

The gala dinner on campus was an opportunity for Trinity staff, students, alumni, and friends to reflect on the tremendous achievements of the wider Trinity community.

21 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding

Trinity benefits from legacy of Elan founder Dr Don Panoz

Dr Panoz died in September 2018, aged 83, leaving part of his estate to Trinity. This followed his funding in 1994 of the Panoz Institute, a purpose-built home for the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences on campus.

18 Oct 2022

Awards and Funding|Health