Written answers
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Department of Education and Skills
Research and Development
Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Horizon Europe consortia linkages between Irish universities and Israeli institutions, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2714/24]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon Europe is the European Union’s largest research and innovation programme, with a budget of €95.5 billion over its seven-year lifetime from 2021 to 2027. The Horizon Europe programme encompasses all European Member States as well as 18 Associated Countries from around the world.
Israel signed a Horizon Europe Association Agreement with the European Commission on 6 December 2021, allowing full participation in the programme. The negotiation process for incorporating new Associated Countries is the sole competence of the European Commission. EU Member States and the European Parliament have no formal role in these negotiations and are not required to approve the agreements. Israel has been associated to every one of the EU's research and innovation framework programmes since 1996.
One key objective of Horizon Europe is to foster large-scale collaborative research projects among geographically dispersed partners. 380 Irish organisations currently participate in 957 individual Horizon Europe consortia-type projects, involving Higher Education Institutes, small and medium sized enterprises, public bodies and research agencies.
Irish Higher Education Institutions are autonomous and join consortia consistent with their research objectives.
Since the beginning of Horizon Europe, 27 consortia-type projects have had at least one Irish Higher Education Institute and one Israeli participant.
These projects are listed by project title, research theme, project value, total participants, Irish HEI involved and Israeli members in the Table supplied. The smallest of these projects has 8 members situated across the European region, while the largest has 159.
Ten Higher Education Institutes from Ireland are currently taking part in these projects: Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Munster Technological University, Technological University Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Galway, University of Limerick and University of Maynooth.
In monetary value, these projects represent roughly 2% of the total drawdown by Irish organisations.
Title | Project Net EU Contribution | Thematic Priority | Total Participants | Irish HEI | Israeli Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrated Services for Infectious Disease Outbreak Research | € 20,998,624 | Research infrastructures | 159 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE |
| Establishing of Cancer Mission Hubs: Networks and Synergies | € 6,096,148 | Health | 47 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | MINISTRY OF HEALTH |
| Fostering a European Research Area for Health Research | € 33,045,067 | Health | 44 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | MINISTRY OF HEALTH |
| Demonstration of innovative functional food production systems based on a sustainable value chain of marine and freshwater raw materials for conscientious European consumers | € 5,999,989 | Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment | 36 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA, ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED |
| Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance | € 12,889,656 | Digital, Industry and Space | 33 | UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY | IBM ISRAEL |
| ELIXIR-STEERS | € 3,062,192 | Research infrastructures | 31 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE |
| Innovative ligands for nuclear receptors to eradicate cancer relapse. | € 2,526,934 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) | 31 | TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER, BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV |
| Gender Equality Network to Develop ERA Communities To coordinate Inclusive and sustainable policy implementatiON | € 2,999,814 | Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System | 26 | UNIVERSITY OF MAYNOOTH | MINISTRY OF INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
| European Glocal Counter-Terrorism | € 2,632,198 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) | 25 | DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY | REICHMAN UNIVERSITY, COUNTER-TERRORISM SOLUTIONS LTD |
| Towards a functional continuum operating system | € 10,997,675 | Digital, Industry and Space | 23 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | RED HAT ISRAEL LTD |
| Marine forest coastal restoration: an underwater gardening socio-ecological plan | € 10,369,172 | Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment | 23 | UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY | V-CORALS LTD, ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LTD |
| Technology based impact assessment tool foR sustaInable, transparent Deep sEa miNing exploraTion and exploitation | € 11,845,429 | Digital, Industry and Space | 22 | UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK | AGORA P.S.V.D. |
| European Citizen Science | € 3,999,043 | Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System | 21 | TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | THE MOFET INSTITUTE |
| Collaborative edge-cLoud continuum and Embedded AI for a Visionary industry of thE futuRe | € 4,497,178 | Digital, Industry and Space | 20 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD |
| Risk and Resilience in Developmental Diversity and Mental Health | € 7,856,504 | Health | 17 | TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY, K I RESEARCH INSTITUTE RA |
| Integrating SOil Biodiversity to Ecosystem Services: testing cost-effectiveness of Soil Biodiversity indicators and the provision of soil biodiversity-based Ecosystem Services to build better land management solutions that effectively implement the EU Soil Strategy | € 7,213,229 | Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment | 17 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION OF ISRAEL |
| Innovative Mechanochemical Processes to synthesize green ACTIVE pharmaceutical ingredients. | € 7,438,705 | Health | 16 | TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
| An innovative non-contact and harmless screening modality set to change the course of breast cancer detection and patient monitoring | € 11,432,044 | Health | 14 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | THERMOMIND LTD, ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ASSUTA MEDICAL CENTERS LTD, SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER |
| INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR MARINE AND FRESHWATER BASED INGREDIENTS TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE FOODS AND VALUE CHAINS | € 5,995,287 | Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment | 14 | TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | ESHKOL INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE LTD |
| INNOVATIVE TOOLS TO CONTROL ORGANIC MATTER AND DISINFECTION BYPRODUCTS IN DRINKING WATER | € 3,994,707 | Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment | 14 | DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM |
| NET4MAT - Building knowledge and tools for the sustainable microbial fighting through sensing and responsive polysaccharide-based materials | € 460,000 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) | 14 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM |
| Machine Learning for Autonomic System Operation in the Heterogeneous Edge-Cloud Continuum | € 5,711,250 | Digital, Industry and Space | 12 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN | MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD |
| Circularity and Remanufacturing-Enabling DIgital Twins | € 5,586,185 | Digital, Industry and Space | 11 | MUNSTER TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | NUREGO LTD. |
| V A L I D A T E - Validation of a Trustworthy AI-based Clinical Decision Support System for Improving Patient Outcome in Acute Stroke Treatment | € 5,918,175 | Health | 10 | TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN | HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION |
| Preterm Brain-Oxygenation and Metabolic EU-Sensing: Feed the Brain | € 3,554,156 | The European Innovation Council (EIC) | 10 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | QULAB MEDICAL LTD. |
| Wafer-scale platform for Photonic Programmable Multipurpose Integrated Circuits | € 4,994,184 | Digital, Industry and Space | 9 | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK | MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD |
| ANion Exchange Membrane Electrolysis from Low-grade water sources | € 3,314,384 | The European Innovation Council (EIC) | 8 | UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY | ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
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