Innovation, Digitalisation, Enterprise and Society (IDEAS)
Innovation, Digitalisation, Enterprise
and Society (IDEAS)
The Postgraduate Research
Training Programme (PRTP)
in Innovation, Digitalisation,
Enterprise and Society offers 12
PhD research scholarships to
commence in 2024. Each project
will include an enterprise placement
of minimum 12 weeks duration.
Project awards will include:
• A student stipend (usually
tax-exempt) valued at
€22,000 per annum
• Annual waivers of
postgraduate tuition fee
• Extensive research
training programme
• Support for travel, consumables
and dissemination expenses
Innovation, Digitalisation, Enterprise The PhD research programmes
and Society (IDEAS) is an exciting within IDEAS focus on emerging
new research initiative that will digital technologies and how they
drive economic growth and human can be leveraged to create value
capital development in the Northern for enterprise and society. The
and Western regions of Ireland. PhD studentships offer candidates
supervision from world-leading
Ireland faces some important
research teams, applied research and
challenges with regional disparities
work experience with our enterprise
in R&D, innovation, digitalisation and
partners, and comprehensive
economic growth. Consequently,
research and professional training.
regional development is a priority
IDEAS will develop highly skilled,
for the national government
motivated and industry-focused
and the European Commission.
graduates for executive roles to drive
IDEAS aims to become a centre of
transformative change and innovation
excellence for research in regional
across a wide range of disciplines.
innovation systems, enterprise and
digitalisation, contributing to the
debate on the digital revolution’s
wider implications, and to stimulate
innovation and cooperation
between research and industry.