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Applications for funding for research and innovation
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36. (1) The Agency may invite applications for funding under a funding scheme from all or any of the following:
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(a) a designated institution of higher education;
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(b) a higher education provider that is not a designated institution of higher education;
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(c) an organisation, body or company engaged in research and innovation other than an institution or provider referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);
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(d) any combination of institutions, providers, organisations, bodies and companies referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).
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(2) An institution, provider, organisation, body or company referred to in subsection (1) or any combination of them (in this Act referred to as an “applicant”) may make an application to the Agency for funding for research and innovation under a funding scheme (in this Act referred to as an “application”).
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(3) An application may be submitted to the Agency on behalf of an applicant by an employee of the applicant or, as may be appropriate, a person who is a registered student (or who intends to register as a student) of the applicant.
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(4) An application shall be made in accordance with the terms of the funding scheme concerned and this Part.
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(5) The Chief Executive Officer may, in respect of an application, request, use and rely on information from—
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(a) An t dar s, in relation to financial or oversight matters, and
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(b) the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland, in relation to the qualifications and experience of the persons proposed in the application to undertake the research and innovation concerned and the quality assurance procedures of the applicant,
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as respects the application and the applicant.
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(6) If, at any time after applications are invited by the Agency under a funding scheme and before awards of funding are made thereunder, the Agency proposes to revise the terms of the scheme in a material way, then, this section shall apply to the funding scheme as so revised.
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