The Health Research Board (HRB), Irish Research Council (IRC) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) are fully aware that the current situation regarding the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is having a significant impact on the research and innovation community, both in Ireland and internationally.
Priority is the safety and wellbeing of people – researchers, research participants, and those who support them.
They note that projects may be unavoidably delayed as a result of practical measures taken to contain the virus and on an ongoing basis, are working to understand the nature of any impacts on funded projects and to facilitate any appropriate measures that may prove necessary.
The HRB, IRC and SFI are taking a pragmatic approach and will give due consideration on a case-by-case basis to the following:
- Call deadlines
- Deadlines for progress reporting
- Deadlines for the return of award documentation
- Budget reallocations or exceptional charges to grants arising from travel/other restrictions
- No-cost extensions
- Restructuring of project deliverables and timelines for researcher mobility and collaborations, where direct adverse impact has occurred
Read more about the agencies joint statement on COVID-19 here.