SFI

Promoting Ireland as a location for scientific research and development; promoting Ireland as a leading location for science and technology based industry; promoting and raising public awareness of the importance of science and scientific research; administration and management of grant applications for others, namely, administration and management of grant applications filed by grant applicants; administration and management of research grants; management of grant funding for research programs in respect of which grants have been made; management of grant funding for the research and educational programs of others in the field of science, engineering and technology

Providing grants, awards and other financial sponsorship in the fields of science, engineering and technology; raising funds for scientific research; providing grant applications; assessing proposals for research projects for the purpose of making financial grants; providing funding for symposia, seminars and courses of instruction related to scientific subject matter, intellectual property and/or the importance of science, technology and engineering generally

Educational services in the fields of science, technology and engineering, namely, provision of training in the field of science, technology and engineering, arranging and conducting workshops in respect of research techniques and in the fields of science, technology and engineering generally; publication of books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, periodicals, reports and texts in the fields of science, engineering and technology; issuing of awards and conducting award ceremonies in the field of science, engineering and technology; providing peer review of educational research proposals; providing assessment of educational research projects

Providing peer review in the field of scientific and technological research projects; providing a database of scientific and engineering information in the nature of descriptions of funded projects and reports of progress made on funded projects; providing a database containing information in the field of biotechnology and information and communications technology; providing ongoing review and assessments of scientific, engineering and technological research projects