This page provides information about the EPA Research 2020 awards including:
A total of 46 awards were made in 2020, including strategic partnerships at national and international level.
| Scheme | Awards made | Funding committed |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 Climate Call (reserve list) | 2 | €798,553 |
| 2019 Water Call (reserve list) | 1 | €1,490,023 |
| Green Enterprise projects | 4 | €381,738 |
| 2020 - EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarship Scheme | 7 | €600,000 |
| Fulbright-EPA awards | 2 | €31,500 |
| Five Year Assessment Report - climate research | 7 | €1,431,054 |
| SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme | 5 | €1,008,700 |
| Phase 3 EPA-ESRI Research Programme | 10 | €2,185,000 |
| EPA-IPA Research Programme | 1 | €392,000 |
| DAFM 2019 strategic partnership | 4 | €500,000 |
| Climate JPI SOLSTICE joint transnational call | 1 | €148,450 |
| Other awards | 2 | €105,049 |
| Total: | 46 | €9,072,067 |
A list of all awards made in 2020 can be found below.
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Project Type | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University College Cork (UCC) | John Wenger | Source Apportionment of Air Pollution in the Dublin Port Area | Large Scale Project | n/a |
| University of Birmingham | Nicholas Kettridge | Irish Peatland Resilience to changing climate and increased frequency and severity of drought | Medium Scale Project | NPWS |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Project Type | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University College Dublin (UCD) | Michael Bruen | WFD Future Scenarios and Management Tools | Capability Development | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Project Type | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Green Building Council | Pat Barry | Closing the loop on construction LCA | Green Enterprise | n/a |
| Polymer Alloy Technology Teo. | Adrian Doyle | Recycling Waste Farm Plastics into On-Farm Livestock Drinkers | Green Enterprise | n/a |
| John Gannon Concrete Ltd T/A Gannon Eco | Noeleen Fox | Replacement Aggregate for Cement Products | Green Enterprise | n/a |
| ÉireComposites Teoranta | Tomas Flanagan | Development of an innovative manufacturing process using RecyclAble REinforced Plastic for producing wind turbine blades | Green Enterprise | n/a |
| Lead Organisation | Applicant | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin City University (DCU) | Dylan O'Flynn | Empire Evaluate - Effect based Monitoring for Environmental Pollution in Ireland and Evaluation of Mitigation Strategies to Minimise its Impact | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) | Dakota Holmes | Providing Insights from Climate Archives (PICA): a multiproxy approach for the reconstruction of AMOC response to Quaternary climate events | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) | Mairead Gallagher | Studies on Metabolites of Common Antibiotics in the Development of Antimicrobial Resistance (AM-AMR) | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| University College Cork (UCC) | Eibhlín Halpin | Spectroscopic Technology for Analysing Nitrogen Dioxide and Urgent Personal exposure measurements (STANDUP) | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| University College Cork (UCC) | Amy O'Halloran | Private Transnational Environmental Regulation and Systemic Interactions in Global Environmental Governance | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| University College Dublin (UCD) | Robert Watson | A multi-data machine learning approach to identifying, mapping and characterising sinkhole populations in karst environments | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| University College Dublin (UCD) | Stacey Kerr | Pharming of high value metabolites from transplastomic plant cells using bioreactors | Irish Research Council (IRC) |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| University College Cork (UCC) | Astrid Wingler | Carbon capture and soil carbon sequestration in annual and perennial grasslands | Fulbright Commission Ireland |
| University College Dublin (UCD) | Holly English | Adaptive conservation management considering models of species population changes under climate change predictions | Fulbright Commission Ireland |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin City University (DCU) | Diarmuid Torney | Five Year Assessment Report - Writer Support Award – Volume 4 | n/a |
| Maynooth University (MU) | Conor Murphy | Five Year Assessment Report - Writer Support Award - Volume 3 | n/a |
| Maynooth University (MU) | David Smyth | Five Year Assessment Report - Fellowship | n/a |
| Maynooth University (MU) | Peter Thorne | Five Year Assessment Report - Writer Support Award – Volume 1B | n/a |
| National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) | Paul Nolan | Five Year Assessment Report - Writer Support Award – Volume 3B | n/a |
| University College Cork (UCC) | Brian O'Gallachoir | Five Year Assessment Report - Writer Support Award – Volume 2A | n/a |
| Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Jennifer McElwain | Five Year Assessment Report - Writer Support Award – Volume 1A | n/a |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| University College Dublin (UCD) | Shane Donohue | Geophysical and Earth Observation Tools for Evaluating the Condition of Slopes | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Caroline Brophy | Achieving sustainable agri-ecosystems through advances in modelling and visualising the biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality relationship | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco | SEparating Critical metals ThrOugh mineRal crystallization | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Paula Colavita | Advancing the green transition via novel electrode materials for valorisation processes | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Pepijn Luijckx | Can we use metabolic theory of ecology to predict disease outbreaks in a warming world? | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Consumption-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Health Effects of Drinking Water Quality in Ireland | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | The Social Distribution of Environmental Quality, Pollution and Health Outcomes | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Estimating the Societal Costs of Illness caused by Environmental Pollutants | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Health and Wellbeing Effects of a Clean and Healthy Environment and Environmental Amenities | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Designing a Green, Equitable and Socially Acceptable Subsidy Scheme | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Behaviourally-informed tests of radon testing and remediation communications | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | A diagnostic experiment to identify ways to improve communications with young people aged 13-25 years | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | A diagnostic experiment and randomised controlled trail to test ways to improve waste management | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Anne Nolan | Green VAT Reform | Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute of Public Administration (IPA) | Joanna O'Riordan | Experimental Governance with regard to Ireland’s Water Governance Structures and Processes | Institute of Public Administration (IPA) |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teagasc | Dominika Krol | Abating Ammonia in Agriculture | Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) |
| Teagasc | Sinead Waters | Development and validation of novel technologies to reduce methane emissions from pasture based Irish agricultural systems | Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) |
| University College Dublin (UCD) | John O'Sullivan | Hydrological and sediment impacts of forestry operations in Ireland | Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) |
| National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) | James Moran | High Nature Value Farmland and Forestry Systems for Biodiversity | Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) | Gary Goggins | Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to TAckle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation | SOLSTICE funders |
| Lead Organisation | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Co-funded with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) | Iulia Siedschlag | Ex-Post Analysis of the Impact of National Landfill Policy for GHG-Emissions in the Waste Sector | n/a |
| National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) | Dearbhaile Morris | Research Gap Analysis - Antimicrobial Resistance and the Environment | n/a |