EDGE Fellowships

Provide software consultancy for Maynooth University's RENEW project and its planned energy services company. Support solutions using smart meter data, wholesale electricity price signals and digital automation to help households shift electricity use away from peak periods.

Supply reagents, consumables and associated controls for legacy lymphoma clonality testing using capillary electrophoresis at the hospital’s Cancer Molecular Diagnostics laboratory.

Establish a panel of National Contact Point experts across EU Member States to advise the RPBS NETforNature project. Experts will support capacity-building to incorporate EU results-based payment schemes into public or private support schemes for biodiversity and nature restoration in agricultural landscapes.

Study commuting patterns and commuter profiles in County Carlow, including employment and skills trends, commuter interest in living and working locally, and locations with concentrated talent or outward commuting. Support awareness-raising during an online survey and deliver a comprehensive report to inform economic development, enterprise growth, workforce planning and place-making.

Develop a Rural Sustainable Mobility Readiness Framework and a data-driven framework for assessing rural settlement networks. Align the work with Interreg SMOOTY objectives and the Southern Region’s Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy, including RPO 29.

Provide expert financial, economic and regulatory analysis to appraise RTÉ and TG4 funding and performance for 2028–2030. Assess funding needs, resources, forecasts, costs, commitments and intended outputs, and prepare appraisal reports, findings and recommendations.

Provide a multidisciplinary design team for Westgate Vision Public Realm Scheme Character Areas 1 and 2. Deliver detailed design and tendering, manage the construction phase, and support delivery through handover.

Provide garment and textile consultancy services to the Irish Defence Forces and Civil Defence.

Supply, deliver, install and commission an elemental analysis instrument for SETU’s research laboratory in Waterford. It must determine the chemical composition of materials, particularly carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and protein, and support food, agricultural and broader life-science samples.

Supply, deliver, install, commission, calibrate and validate an electroplating and wet processing system for Tyndall National Institute. It must provide void-free plating and filling of TGV and TSV structures on wafers up to 300 mm using gold- and copper-based chemistries, and produce highly repeatable, flat electroplated structures on III-V materials.