The All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) seeks to produce all-island, spatial datasets and specialist tools to aid their analyses, and to undertake academic and applied mapping research.

The Higher Education Authority is the statutory planning and development body for higher education and research in Ireland.  The HEA has wide advisory powers throughout the whole of the third-level education sector. In addition it is the funding authority for the universities and a number of designated higher education institutions.

Welcome to the Department of Education and Science website. The mission of this Department is to provide high-quality education which will (a) enable individuals to achieve their full potential and to participate fully as members of society; and (b) contribute to Ireland's social, cultural and economic development.

Launched in January 2007, and entitled Transforming Ireland - A Better Quality of Life for All, this new seven year National Development Plan is another major milestone in building a prosperous Ireland for all its people, characterised by sustainable economic growth, greater social inclusion and balanced regional development. .

Structural Funds and Cohesion Funds are funds allocated by the European Union for two related purposes: support for the poorer regions of Europe and support for integrating European infrastructure especially in the transport sector. Current programmes run from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013, with €277bn budget for Structural Funds, and €70bn for the Cohesion Fund.

The SSAI Databank will contain psychometrically standardised assessment instruments that will facilitate the pooling of data across centres and the generation of data compatible with international standards of best practice.

The IQDA will be a central access point for social science data in media other than machine-readable datasets and will frame the parameters and standards for archiving such data within the Irish research community