en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Irish government has announced an investment of €460 million to establish seven new Research Ireland centres. These centres will operate as a national research network called "Rinn" (the Irish word for point, tip, or headland) over an eight-year period.

The seven Rinn Research Centres will focus on advanced therapies, artificial intelligence, energy, medical devices, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceuticals, quantum, and semiconductors. According to an announcement made on June 10 at the RDS in Dublin, these centres will support 577 research positions, train over 800 PhD students, and collaborate with 17 "research performing organisations."

Partner organisations include Atlantic Technological University, Dublin City University, the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, South East Technological University, Trinity College Dublin, and Tyndall National Institute, among others. The Rinn centres will also receive an additional €500 million in funding from "industry and other sources," supported by over 200 industry partners, including more than 100 multinational corporations and nearly 100 small and medium-sized enterprises.

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, stated upon announcing the funding that the "scale and scope" of this investment reflects Ireland's ambition in research and innovation. The seven Rinn Research Centres will share the €460 million funding, with the largest share (nearly €122 million) allocated to the Rinn AI Centre. The Semiconductor Centre will receive nearly €71 million, the Medical Devices Centre €64 million, the Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Centre approximately €60 million, the Advanced Therapies Centre and the Energy Centre around €51 million each, and the Quantum Centre approximately €39 million. According to Research Ireland, the seven Rinn centres will officially commence operations on July 1.

Dr. Diarmuid O'Brien, CEO of Research Ireland, stated that each Rinn will cultivate world-class talent, drive enterprise-research interaction, and consolidate Ireland's international standing by creating a unique research and innovation ecosystem of international importance and scale. He noted that a key action in its strategy is to implement an enhanced Research Ireland Centres Programme, capable of developing national centres of international scale in areas of critical strategic importance, and that Rinn is the tangible embodiment of this action.

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