Approx. €55.24m in recurrent funding and €78.9m of capital funding has been issued to institutions under PRTLI Cycle 4 since the announcement of the awards in August 2007 up to the end of 2009 for the S&E Region. Additional Information in relation to progress under PRTLI The following table provides additional information on activities under the PRTLI Cycle 4. Approximately 97% of the positions to be funded over the lifetime of the programme are in place Class Indicator Outturn to 31 Dec 09 Head Count Appointed [ S&E] Male * Female * Outputs PI’s 23 16 Researcher PhD+ 104 56 Research Assistants 14 18 Technicians 23 9 PhD Students 184 150 Other 37 52 Total 385 (287 in 301 (178 in 2008) 2008) ** [ Both regions]
Equipment purchase 226 (127 in 2008) Peer Review Publications 1645 (739 in 2008) Conference/ Presentations 2870 (977 in 2008) Research Awards 579 (299 in 2008) Patents/ IP Output 59 (21 in 2008) Teaching & Learning Additions to existing courses 386 (247 in 2008) Collaborations New national collaborations 103 (40 in 2008) established New international collaborations 257 (122 in 2008) established North/ South Collaborations 23 (12 in 2008) established Industry Collaborations established 75 * Note 1: Positions appointed related to S&E Higher Education Institutions only. These figures relate to Head Count appointed to date, hence difference with number of posts approved. Figures also cumulative and can include where people leave and are replaced on projects. ** Note 2: Due to the national collaborative nature of PRTLI, all other indicators are for Cycle 4 projects as a whole, both S&E and BMW regions. The large increase in collaborations is due in part to the increased involvement by Irish institutions in FP7 projects. In addition, by 2009 all projects were fully formed and in a stronger position to develop international ties. These collaboration can take any form – joint applications for funding, student/staff exchanges, research projects embarked upon, etc. Research Facilities Enhancement Scheme (RFES) M2 delivered to M2 delivered Workstations Workstations Researcher Researcher date [gross] to date [new] [Total] [New] Places [Total] Places [New] 16,841 7,808 1,610 556 675 459 All HEI’s awarded RFES funding Cork Institute of Technology Biopharmaceutical Chemical Research €0.325m Redevelopment of existing space to provide wet-lab facilities, autoclave room, meeting area and bioinformatics facility for the expansion of the research cluster Dublin City University Bio-analytical Science Facility €3.765m Refurbishment of vacated space in old college buildings to house additional workstations which were integrated with specialist facilities in bio-analytical and bioengineering sciences Dublin City University School of Computing Research Facility €0.840m Conversion of undergraduate space in the School of Computing into fit-for-purpose research space to support large-scale research ventures involving inter-institutional collaborations and industrial partnerships between the Faculties of Engineering and Computing Dublin City University
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