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As per my last email, you can subscribe to the Ideas/ERC Ireland group by adding your email below. We will review and approve your application as quickly as possible.

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I’ve created a Google Group called Ideas/ERC Ireland to share and disseminate information relating to the national programme of education and assistance in applying for ERC funding within Ireland.
If you’re a member of the Irish research community (either an active researcher or a member of a University/IT staff) and have not received an invite, please [...]

In their published work programme, the European Research Council has advised that proposals for the first call (Starting Independent Researcher Grants) will be accepted from April 1, 2007. This call will close on April 22, 2007 @ 17:00 EST.
The work programme document, however, allows the Director General the leeway to extend this deadline by [...]

A recent entry in the Freakonomics blog points to an insightful piece originally published in the New York Times in 1996. The article poses the question over the ecomonic and environmental value of the recycling programme in the US, and in New York city in particular.
Like much of the Freakonomics work, it tackles issues [...]

New Irish is the term usually given to the recent immigrants to Ireland. According to a recent report by the Immigrant Council of Ireland, the net immigration into Ireland in the years from 1999 to 2004 was 188,800 people. This figure excludes returning Irish who had previously emigrated (and who account for another [...]