EPA Research Programme

ReVolv LaunchAlice Wemaere, EPA Research

Tuesday 11th July 2017

EPA Research

Related EPA-funded Project

EU CIP Eco-Innovation

EU Funding (Horizon 2020)

Interacting with us

Funding Research

A research programme that addresses knowledge gaps and helps identify solutions to emerging and complex environmental problems

R&D

94-99

(€7m)

ERTDI 2000-06

(€55.6m)

STRIVE 2007-13

(€74.3m)

EPA Research 2014-20

(€30.9m to-date)

c. €8.5m / yr

Research for…

Identifying Pressures

Informing Policy

Developing Solutions

EPA Research 2014-2020

2017 Funding

Green Enterprise 2017 Scheme (Closed on 09/06/17)

EPA/HSE Tender (e-Tender) on Priority Settings in the

Environment & Health Research Area (Closed on 22/06/17)

EPA 2017 Research Calls (Closed on 03/07/17)

TBC: Additional Call on the UN SDGs (exp. to open in July 2017)

Transnational Funding:

BiodivERsA Joint Call (EPA/MI cofunding) – September 2017

Water JPI Joint Call (UN SDGs) – August/September 2017

Strategic Partnerships

National Level

Irish Research Council (Scholarships)

Science Foundation Ireland (Investigator Programme)

Co-funding (as part of EPA or other funders calls)

ESAI/EPA Grassroots Workshop Support

International Level

Horizon 2020

Climate JPI (next call in 2018)

Water JPI (upcoming call in June 2017)

BiodivERsA (upcoming call in 2017)

Fulbright Awards

Where do we fit?

Demonstration/Pre-Commercialisation Research: Horizon 2020

Applied/Demonstration Research: EPA Green Enterprise Scheme, SFI-EPA Investigator Programme, Joint Transnational Calls

Basic/Applied Research EPA Research Calls(policy-driven), EPA-Fulbright Awards

Basic Research: IRC-EPA Scholarship Scheme

2008 EPA Research Call – c. €350k

Identify Technologies to Assist Waste Management

• Research project aimed at:

Creating eco-innovation in Ireland

Developing novel recycling technology

Preventing hazardous materials reaching air, water or soil

Enhancing the output of economically relevant knowledge

Innovative Process for Recycling of LCD Displays

• Innovative process to recycling LCD displays invented and patent filed in Dec 2009

• Prototype machine designed and manufactured during the project

• A spin-out company, ALR Innovations

• Research findings published in EPA STRIVE Report 122

Innovative Process for Recycling of LCD Displays

Eco-Innovation Initiative

Designed to implement the EU's Eco-innovation Action Plan -CIP Eco-innovation

Bridges the gap between research and the market

Ideas for innovative products, services & processes that protect the environment => Commercial prospects, ready for use by business and industry

Between 2008 and 2013: c. €200 million

Three Priorities

Excellent science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Objective:

"to achieve a resource– and water– efficient and climate change resilient economy and society, the protection and sustainable management of natural resources and ecosystems, and a sustainable supply and use of raw materials, in order to meet the needs of a growing global population within the sustainable limits of the planet's natural resources and eco-systems."

Societal Challenge 5

Next Calls: 2018-20(in preparation)

Call: "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris

Agreement"

Call: "Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"

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(H2020)

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