Trans-National Research Funding
DAFM allocates some funding from its three competitive research programmes to support national participation in strategically aligned transnational competitive research Calls. Such participation helps leverage expertise and data and develop skills and networks. The majority of transnational research funding Calls that DAFM supports are undertaken in conjunction with other EU Member States and the EU Commission (through ERA-NET Calls and Joint Programming Initiative funding Calls), but DAFM support also extends to the US-Ireland Research & Development Partnership which was recently extended to included agricultural research under an arrangement involving DAFM, DAERA NI and the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
