On 23 April 2018 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its annual Research Call. They were seeking proposals from the research community to help identify solutions to emerging and complex environmental problems. It highlighted the importance of a clean, healthy and well protected environment for our health, wellbeing and quality of life.
Up to €9.5 million was made available for new research projects, and the Research Call itself is designed to support the implementation of environmental policies in Ireland and was divided into three strands:
Dr Alice Wemaere, EPA Research Manager, said: "The EPA Research Programme funds research that addresses knowledge gaps and provides the evidence base to inform policy-making by government. The Research Call process for environmental proposals is competitive and we expect to be assessing many high-quality submissions from the research community."
The EPA has been funding research in Ireland since 1994 and is currently funding more than 200 on-going research projects.
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