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Dublin and London will join forces to fund a programme supporting researchers working on climate change issues, both governments announced on Monday.
The €74 million initiative will fund a series of virtual collaborative research centres across Ireland, and the UK focused on work related to two key areas: climate and sustainable and resilient food systems.
The centres will gather academic and industrial researchers and policymakers from both countries and will each be funded for six years.
The programme is set to be jointly managed by Science Foundation Ireland, Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, the UK’s Department for Environment and Rural Affairs, and UK Research and Innovation.
“By working together, we can foster new research collaborations that are crucial to addressing both climate and sustainable and resilient food systems,” said Simon Harris, Ireland’s Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, adding, “these are critical issues that impact on all of us.”
The participating agencies will, in mid-November, open a call for proposals for the programme, which Northern Ireland’s Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots said represented “a major joint investment” in the areas it would address.
“I look forward to our research community responding to the call and subsequently delivering world-leading collaborative science to provide the evidence and innovation we need to enable Northern Ireland to reduce carbon emissions and the biodiversity crisis in the right way; balancing climate, driving efficiency, environment and green jobs,” he added.
