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Funding Framework
S37(2) of the Higher Education Authority Act 2022 (the HEA Act 2022) requires that the HEA shall from time to time, with the approval of the Minister, prepare and establish a framework – in the HEA Act referred to as a ‘funding framework’ – for the allocation of funding to bodies seeking funding in a manner that is consistent with the objects and functions of the Authority provided for in the HEA Act and in accordance with any directions given to it by the Minister at the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
This page hosts the Funding Framework prepared in adherence with the HEA Act and approved by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, in March 2026. Funding Schedules for individual funding schemes and programmes will be published in a phased manner.
The specific funding conditions pertaining to individual funding schemes and programmes will continue to be as contained in individual funding documentation such as letters, terms and conditions, grant agreements and/or Schedules of the Funding Framework as appropriate to each specific funding scheme or programme.
Le S37(2) in Acht an Údaráis um Ard-Oideachas 2022 (“Acht an ÚAO), cuirtear de cheangal ar an ÚAO, ó ham go chéile, le ceadú an Aire, fráma a ullmhú agus a bhunú – dá dtagraítear mar “funding framework [fráma maoinithe]” in Acht an Údaráis – maidir le leithdháileadh do chomhlachtaí atá ag lorg maoinithe ar bhealach atá seasmhach le cuspóirí agus feidhmeanna an Údaráis mar a leagtar síos in Acht an ÚAO agus i gcomhréir le haon treoir a thugann an tAire ar An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta dó.
Cuirtear i láthair ar an leathanach gréasáin seo an fráma maoinithe a cruthaíodh i gcomhlíonadh le hAcht an Údaráis agus atá ceadaithe ag an Aire ar An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta, James Lawless TD, Márta 2026. Déanfar sceidil mhaoinithe do chláir agus scéimeanna maoinithe ar leith a fhoilsiú ar bhonn céimnithe.
Beidh coinníollacha sonracha maidir le maoiniú a bhaineann le cláir agus scéimeanna maoinithe fós ar fáil in gcáipéisí maoinithe ar leith amhail litreacha, téarmaí agus coinníollacha, comhaontuithe deontais, agus/nó Sceidil an fráma maoinithe de réir mar is cuí maidir le gach clár nó scéim maoinithe ar leith.