The Discovery Research Measure of Sea Change involves the development of leading edge, multidisciplinary research programmes in Marine Biotechnology, Marine Technology, Marine Functional Food and Renewable Ocean Energy.
One of the Measure’s objectives is to build new research capacity and capability in areas that offer high growth potential. It is a knowledge generation programme, providing pre-competitive research outputs on which to build new marine-related business opportunities.
The Discovery Research Measure will support and stimulate areas of basic and applied sciences to engage in new scientific discovery and technological developments with marine potential. It will bring together knowledge and expertise from non-marine areas and focus it on priority areas of the Irish marine sector.
This Measure will add further value to the already significant investments in research infrastructure and human capital that the state made during the life of the last National Development Plan. In doing so, the Measure will build a new understanding of the importance and potential of the marine and generate future research capacity.
The Discovery Measure consists of four major Research Programmes:
Overview of Activity in 2007 / 2008
Information on 2007 and 2008 marine research investments made, projects awarded and key strategic intiatitives undertaken for each of the Research Programmes in the Discovery Research Measure is available in the Sea Change Annual Progress Reports for 2007 and 2008 or alternatively through the projects database. Information on 2009 activity will be available shortly.
For any further informaton please contact the Sea Change Management Unit.