The first phase of the Higher Education Authorities Programme for Research will include funding under various headings to 11 institutions.
Athlone Institute of Technology, £1,775,000, funding for biopolymer and molecular activity research.
Dublin City University, £22,446,000, to establish a National Centre for Sensor Research, a National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology and the Research Centre in Networks and Communication Engineering.
Dublin Institute of Technology, £8,200,000, to provide an Optical Characterisation and Spectroscopic Facility for measurement and testing work in science, food science and engineering.
Institute of Technology, Carlow, £948,000, to fund a research programme in the areas of biotechnology and environmental science.
National University of Ireland, Galway, £15,406,000, to establish a centre of Biomedical Engineering Science.
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, £8,870,000, to support a programme in Bioscience research in immunology, bioengineering and agroecology.
The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, £8,662,000, to fund Biopharmaceutical sciences research; research in cystic fibrosis and cardiovascular disease.
Trinity College Dublin, £18,816,000, funding for an Institute of Advanced Materials Science; an Institute for Information Technology and Advanced Computation Research; plus £20 million for National research resource.
University College Cork, £21,113,000, to establish Biosciences Institute and Nanofabrication facility; Food and Health Science research and Humanities Research under the themes History and Society.
University College Dublin, £24,535,000, funding to support the Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, a new Institute for the Study of Social Change and a National Science Archive.
University of Limerick, £11.4 million, funding for the Materials and Surface Science Institute.