SEAI provide funding through strategic and collaborative partnerships with other national and international funding agencies. Below we provide an overview of these funding opportunities.

Clean Energy Transition Partnership Call

The CETPartnership aims to empower the clean energy transition and contribute to the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, by pooling national and regional RDTI funding for a broad variety of technologies and system solutions required to make the transition.  

The total available budget is more than €140million across all national and regional funding partners and European Commission (EC) co-funding. There is €0.5million available through SEAI to support Irish participants. The maximum SEAI funding available per project is €200,000.  

To cover different topics and RDI types, the Call is structured into 12 Call Modules, aimed at different energy technologies and/or systems as well as both research and innovation oriented approaches on different Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), complementing and completing each other.  

For more information on the call please visit CET Partnerships - http://cetpartnership.eu/calls/.

Call Calendar

Important Dates 
Funding decision communicated 

June 2024
Project start (Tentative) September 2024
Application to SEAI Early April 2024

SFI-IRC Pathway Programme 2024

SEAI is a co-funding partner of the SFI IRC Pathway Programme. This Programme will support talented postdoctoral researchers from all research disciplines to develop their track record and transition to become independent research leaders. 

The programme welcomes research proposals from any discipline within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS). Applications of an interdisciplinary nature which draw together insights and approaches from one or more research disciplines will also be welcomed. T

he maximum funding request permitted under the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme is €495,000 direct costs over a period of four years which includes a contribution to the salary of the applicant, and the stipend and fees for a PhD student. Please refer to the Programme Call Document for further details.  

Further details can be found here

SEAI Funding Call

Annual RD&D Call

The SEAI National Energy Research Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Funding Programme run an annual call which invests in innovative energy RD&D projects which contribute to Ireland's transition to a clean and secure energy future.

Find out more about SEAI Funding Call

Key Documents

Contact us

For any queries, please email: energyresearch@seai.ie