Steve Flinter’s blog

I will be speaking in UCD on Thursday 2 March to researchers who are interested in applying for SFI funding. The talk will take place at 4pm. I don’t have a venue finalised yet, but will post it here when I do.
The talk is aimed primarily at young (or indeed not-so-young) non-funded researchers [...]

I think that some background is in order. Many of you may be aware of SFI, but for those of you who aren’t, it’s worth explaining the Directorates within SFI.
Unlike the science funding agencies of larger countries, who tend to have a very broad remit, SFI has a much narrower one: namely to fund [...]

This is my first post to the Science Foundation Ireland blog. I’m Stephen Flinter, a programme officer with SFI, working in the ICT Directorate.
For those of you who don’t know, SFI is an Irish Government agency mandated with funding scientific research in Ireland. We are conceived along the lines of the National Science [...]