EPA Research 2021 awards

This page provides information about the EPA Research 2021 awards including:

2021 Research awards

A total of 62 awards were made in 2021, including strategic partnerships at national and international level.

Scheme	Awards made	Funding committed
2021 EPA Research Call including	30	€ 7,491,900.75
Addressing Climate Change Evidence Needs Delivering a Healthy Environment Facilitating a Green and Circular Economy Protecting and Restoring our Natural Environment	7 7 11 5	€ 1,338,953.89 € 2,353,450.28 € 2,339,297.84 € 1,460,198.74
Innovation and Demonstration projects	8	€ 707,155.70
2021 - EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarship Scheme	7	€ 632,500.00
2021 Fulbright-EPA Awards	3	€ 33,796.00
DAFM 2021 strategic partnership	2	€ 500,000.00
Marine Institute 2021 Blue Carbon strategic partnership	2	€ 405,000.00
2021 EPA Collaborative Awards (2019/2020 Water JPI Joint Transnational Call)	2	€ 440,426.00
Fast-track to Policy 2021 Scheme	2	€ 72,457.35
Event Support 2021 Scheme	6	€ 17,531.40
Total	62	€ 10,300,767.20

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2021 EPA Research Call - Addressing Climate Change Evidence Needs

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
Maynooth University (MU)	Conor Murphy	Transboundary Climate Risks for Island of Ireland (TCRII)	Desk Study	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Thomas McDermott	Climate Resilient Places	Medium Scale Project	Department of Transport (DOT)
Roughan & O' Donovan	Mark Tucker	Infrastructure climate change risk considering Interdependencies and Cascading hazards	Desk Study	n/a
Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)	Niall Farrell	Just resilience and adaptation in Ireland: sectors and regions	Desk Study	Department of Transport (DOT)
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Renuka Kavutharapu	Top-Down estimates of Irish GHG's emissions using ground and satellite based observations	Research Fellowship	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
University of Limerick (UL)	Colm Duffy	Emissions Inventory Research to improve flux estimates of GHGs and nutrients from agricultural and land	Research Fellowship	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
University of Limerick (UL)	Kenneth Byrne	Analysis of terrestrial methane emissions and impacts of peatland restoration on Ireland’s Carbon Cycle	Research Fellowship	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)

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2021 EPA Research Call - Delivering a Healthy Environment

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Liam Morrison	Source, pathways and impacts on the Aquatic environment - identifying solutions to mitigate manganese issues	Medium Scale Project	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Liam Burke	Detection and risk management of Verotoxigenic E. coli in the water Environment	Large Scale Project	n/a
Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)	Eoin McGillicuddy	Impact of Agricultural Emissions on Rural and Urban Air Quality	Medium Scale Project	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Marie Coggins	assessment of the Environmental contamination of Irish soils and sediments with hazardous chemicals	Medium Scale Project	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)	John Gallagher	Investigating the impacts of urban railway STATION hubs on AIR quality in its environs	Medium Scale Project	Department of Transport (DOT)
University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)	Laurence Gill	Willow evapotranspiration systems as nature-based solutions for on-site wastewater treatment in low permeability areas	Medium Scale Project	n/a
University College Dublin (UCD)	Anna Mölter	Public exposure to non-ionising radiation from major electricity infrastructure in Ireland	Desk Study	n/a

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2021 EPA Research Call - Facilitating a Green and Circular Economy

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
Voice of Irish Concern for the Environment (VOICE)	Abigail O'Callaghan Platt	Awareness raising tools to address avoidable plastic waste arising from sanitary products and disposable nappies	Desk Study	n/a
University of Limerick (UL)	David Styles	Environmental Assessment & Techno-economic feasibility of edible Packaging	Desk Study	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Patrick McGetrick	Opportunities for Green Public Procurement to improve implementation of circular practice	Medium Scale Project	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Vincent O'Flaherty	Towards a bio-based all-island economy: urban bio-waste conversion to carboxylates, nutrient products and renewable energy	Large Scale Project	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Jamie Goggins	Identification of Effective State-of-the-Art Green Public Procurement Policy and Practice for the Irish Public Sector	Medium Scale Project	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
Munster Technological University (MTU)	Gaurav Rajauria	CircBioCityWaste: Converting urban waste streams into value-added products	Large Scale Project	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
Maynooth University (MU)	Peter Mooney	Artificial Intelligence and the Circular Economy	Medium Scale Project	n/a
Foster Environmental Limited	Percy Foster	Identifying the Sources and Scale of Plastic in Compost Derived from Household and Commercial FoodWaste	Desk Study	n/a
Dublin City University (DCU)	Inam Ul Ahad	Critical Raw Materials for Ireland for a Resource Efficient Circular Economy	Desk Study	Geological Survey Of Ireland (GSI)
University of Limerick (UL)	Lisa O'Malley	Mainstreaming Circular Economies Through Collaboration and Co-Creation	Medium Scale Project	n/a
Irish Manufacturing Research	David McCormack	Artificial Intelligence for the Circular Economy in Ireland	Medium Scale Project	n/a

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2021 EPA Research Call - Protecting and Restoring our Natural Environment

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
Minogue Environmental Consulting Ltd	Ruth Minogue	Reframing landscape as a key environmental topic through LCA toolkit	Medium Scale Project	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Mark Healy	Re-wetting of Peatlands for Enhanced Restoration	Large Scale Project	n/a
University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)	Carlos Rocha	Groundwater Age Distributions for the Sustainable Management of groundwater resources in Ireland	Large Scale Project	Geological Survey Of Ireland (GSI)
TechWorks Marine	Charlotte O'Kelly	The Use of Earth Observation and Machine Learning for Waste Crime identification and prevention	Desk Study	n/a
University College Dublin (UCD)	Ainhoa Gonzalez	Public Participation and Performance Criteria in Strategic Environmental Assessment: The Way Forward to Advancing Practice	Medium Scale Project	Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR)

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2021 Innovation and Demonstration awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Project Type	Co-funded with
IWFMN	William Vernon	Industrial Symbiosis: Collaborative Platform for Furniture Upholstery and Textiles	Green Enterprise	n/a
Central Solutions Ltd	Ken Stockil	Innovation for a Circular Economy	Green Enterprise	n/a
Furniture Recycling Ltd	David Garland	Upcycling mattresses to insulation material and other products	Green Enterprise	n/a
Sensi	James Devitt	Shrinking the Circularity Loop for Plastics Recycling and Reuse	Green Enterprise	n/a
Positive Carbon	Aisling Kirwan	The use of food waste insights to reduce food waste in commercial kitchens	Green Enterprise	n/a
FoodCloud	Tara Clarke	Calculation of the carbon footprint of the activities of FoodCloud improve impact reporting	Green Enterprise	n/a
Allied Recycling	Gordon Naughton	Gypsum Recycling Facility	Green Enterprise	n/a
Beacan Glas Limited	Patrick Arnold	Environmental impact analysis of an urban mushroom farm model to decrease food waste	Green Enterprise	n/a

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EPA-Irish Research Council Scholarships Scheme awards

Lead Organisation	Applicant	Project Title	Co-funded with
Maynooth University (MU)	Laure de Tymowski	Whose environment, whose city? A critical assessment of environmental justice in South Dublin	n/a
Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)	Jerry Hourihane Clancy	Monitoring And Modelling of Biological Aerosols (MAMBA)	n/a
University College Cork (UCC)	Emma Galloway	Emissions from Animal-Based Fertilizers and their Impact on the Environment and Human Health	n/a
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)	Aoife Crowe	Minding the gap: Determining the ecology of the declining and understudied longhorn beetle family (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)	n/a
University College Cork (UCC)	Diarmuid Moynihan	Spectroscopic Investigation of the Climatic Effects of Ultraviolet-absorbing Particles (SPICE-UP): a method-development and field-observation study	n/a
University College Cork (UCC)	Jarni Braal	Innovative sensitive detection of atmospheric trace gas isotopologues	n/a
University College Cork (UCC)	Sean Ritchie	Atmospheric carbon capture using hybrid PSA and membrane system	n/a

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Fulbright-EPA awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
University College Dublin (UCD)	Caroline Dowling	Genetic characterisation of flowering time control in hemp	n/a
Fashion Design Academy of Ireland	Miriam Keegan	Behaviour and the challenges associated with Fast Fashion	n/a
University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)	Iseult Sheehy	Urban transition programmes for local and national governments in partnership with Indigenous experts	n/a

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DAFM 2021 strategic partnership awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Teagasc	Karl Richards	Land-Use, Agriculture & Bioenergy Measures-for-the-Abatement of Climate Change & inclusion in Marginal Abatement Cost-Curve analyses	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)
Teagasc	Pat Touhy	Facilitating water table management on carbon rich soils	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)

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Marine Institute 2021 Blue Carbon strategic partnership awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
University College Dublin (UCD)	Grace Cott	Investigating Ireland’s Blue Carbon Potential Through a Scientific, Socio-economic and Legislative Approach (BlueC)	Marine Institute
University College Dublin (UCD)	Mark Coughlan	Quantification, characterisation, source and fate of past & present carbon storage in coastal off shore sediments for effective marine management	Marine Institute

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2021 EPA Collaborative Awards (2019/2020 Water JPI Joint Transnational Call)

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
Dublin City University (DCU)	Kevin McGuinness	A smart forewarning system for contaminants of emerging concern and pathogens	Water JPI funders and EC
Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin)	Ahmed Nasr	Artificial Intelligence-powered Forecast for Harmful Algal Blooms	Water JPI funders and EC

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Fast-track to Policy 2021 Scheme awards

Lead Organisation	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Co-funded with
University College Cork (UCC)	Maria McNamara	Mapping Understanding and Current Knowledge: Irish Soils	Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI)
University College Cork (UCC)	Kevin O Connor	Circular Bioeconomy Ireland	Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM)

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