Charlemont Grants - Royal Irish Academy

Overview

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Charlemont Grant is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. It supports short research trips abroad to help researchers to carry out primary research in any subject area, build new collaborations and networks and access equipment or training not available in Ireland. You can apply for between €1,500 and €3,000.

Key Dates

• Submissions open: 9 September 2026
• Submissions close: 27 October 2026, 5:00 PM (GMT)
• Decisions announced by: Start of February 2027
• All funded projects must be finished by: End of October 2027

Eligibility Criteria

• Clearly defined piece of research or research activity undertaken through a short international visit, which will have an identifiable outcome on the completion of the project
• Short visit to any country to support primary research in any subject area
• Visits of between one week and six weeks in length
• Key objectives of the research visit should be to: initiate one-to-one collaborations, and/or explore opportunities to build lasting research collaborative networks, and/or to gain access to ideas, library resources, research facilities including the use of equipment and/or receive research training not available in Ireland
• Facilitating initial project planning and development and to support the direct costs of research

Ireland-Wales Funding Stream

• Political and Official Engagement
• Climate, Energy, Environment and Sustainability
• Economy and Trade
• Education, Research and Innovation
• Culture, Language and Heritage
• Communities, Diaspora and Sport

Assessment Criteria

• Excellence of the research proposal, including outcomes (50%)