Minister Grealish confirms extension of closing dates for applications to the 2025 US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership in Agriculture
- Published on: 15 August 2025
- Last updated on: 15 August 2025
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Research, Noel Grealish TD, has confirmed an extension of the closing dates of the 2025 Call for Proposals in Agriculture under the US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership.
The call aims to support Irish, Northern Irish and US researchers to collaborate on projects across twelve areas important to agriculture. These include animal health and welfare, animal breeding, antimicrobial resistance, soil health, the bioeconomy, data science for food and agriculture, among others.
Making the announcement, Minister Grealish said:
“I am delighted to confirm an extension to the closing dates for the 2025 US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership in Agriculture. The Partnership between Ireland, Northern Ireland and the USA provides a very important mechanism for the collaboration and sharing of expertise and resources between researchers across the three jurisdictions.”
The Minister continued:
“This international collaboration can enable our researchers to advance our understanding of complex issues and develop solutions in areas such as mitigating antimicrobial resistance across the food chain, biomanufacturing and the bioeconomy, and livestock production, health, welfare and genetics, among others. Last year, my Department increased the maximum grant rate to €500,000 for Irish partner institutions involved in successful projects and I would encourage researchers to avail of this unique funding opportunity.”
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Notes to the editor
The US-Ireland Research and Development Call in Agriculture is a tripartite partnership between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Ireland), the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA Northern Ireland) and the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA USA).
The call invites eligible Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) from the Republic of Ireland to submit joint research proposals, with collaborating partners from the USA and Northern Ireland, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) of NIFA.
The 2025 Call is focussed around 12 Programme Area Priorities and they along with their respective closing dates are outlined in the table below.
|
Programme Area Priority in AFRI 2025 RFA |
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine/DAERA Deadline |
AFRI Deadline |
|
Pests and Beneficial Species in Agricultural Production Systems (A1112) |
09/10/2025 |
06/11/2025 |
|
Animal Nutrition, Growth, and Lactation (A1231) |
09/10/2025 |
06/11/2025 |
|
Welfare of Agricultural Animals (A1251) |
09/10/2025 |
06/11/2025 |
|
Diseases of Agricultural Animals (A1221) |
09/10/2025 |
06/11/2025 |
|
Animal Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics (A1201) |
09/10/2025 |
06/11/2025 |
|
Mitigating Antimicrobial Resistance Across the Food Chain (A1366) |
25/09/2025 |
23/10/2025 |
|
Agricultural Microbiomes in Plant Systems and Natural Resources (A1402) |
02/10/2025 |
30/10/2025 |
|
Biorefining and Biomanufacturing (A1531) |
11/09/2025 |
09/10/2025 |
|
Data Science for Food and Agriculture Systems (DSFAS) (A1541) |
16/10/2025 |
13/11/2025 |
|
Landscape-Scale Production Systems (A1451) |
18/09/2025 |
16/11/2025 |
|
Bioeconomy and Bio-based Products (A1414) |
11/09/2025 |
09/10/2025 |
|
Soil Health (A1401) |
18/09/2025 |
16/10/2025 |
The submission deadline for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland is four weeks in advance of the stated AFRI deadline for the respective Programme Area Priority in AFRI’s Foundation Competitive Grant Programme.
Details of the Request for Applications (RFA) on the 12 Programme Area Priorities can be found on the AFRI webpage
More information can be found in the links below:
DAFM: US-Ireland Research Call