‘PRTLI Cycle 5, the largest investment in research in the State’s history, will make Ireland Europe’s innovation hub’ – Minister O’Keeffe

The Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD, today [Friday July 16th 2010] announced a €359 million investment plan for research and innovation which will create jobs and new enterprises and drive Ireland’s economic recovery.
The Government’s Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI) invests in physical infrastructure and research projects in our higher education institutions. Under Cycle 5 of the programme, announced today, the Government will invest €296.1 million, with €62.6 million coming from private non-Exchequer sources.PRTLI Cycle 5 will run between 2011 and 2016 – the period of the revised capital programme. Click here to read more

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