Fulbright Awards

The Fulbright Commission awards highly competitive, merit-based grants to international postgraduate students, scholars, and professionals to study, research, and lecture in the United States and for Americans to undertake similar activities outside the US.

It was founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946 and is now one of the most prestigious award programmes worldwide operating in over 155 countries; fifty-three Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes and seventy-eight have won Pulitzer Prizes.

The Fulbright Commission in Ireland is a bilateral partnership supported by the U.S. Department of State and the Irish Government's Department of Foreign Affairs (with a Service Level Agreement with the Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht for 2014-2017). It is a registered charity with funding derived from Irish and U.S. governments, higher education institutions, public agencies, organisations and donations.

The Geological Survey of Ireland have developed a new collaboration with the Fulbright Commission in Ireland and funds Irish researchers to spend time in a US based research institute, or US researchers to spend time in Ireland.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.

—Senator J. William Fulbright

Fulbright (incoming)

As part of the GSI Research Programme, and in partnership with the Fulbright Commission, the GSI will sponsor a US based geoscience researcher to visit a geoscience research department in Ireland.

Funding is available for scholars (post-PhD researchers with minimum of 2 years teaching at third level) to stay in Ireland for a minimum of one semester up to a maximum of one full academic year (10 months).

Applicants must be of high quality and ordinarily based in the United States. Standard Fulbright eligibility criteria apply and submissions will be assessed by experts through the Fulbright Commission.

More information is available at the Fulbright US website: , search for Earth Sciences. (please note the link might not work in Internet Explorer, but opens in Chrome or Firefox)

Duration: up to 10 months (minimum one academic semester)
Funding available: for travel to, accommodation and subsistence costs in Ireland
Max funding: Based on duration and location
Topic: Geoscience/Earth Science, should include research and teaching activities in one or more 3rd level institute in the republic of Ireland
Eligibility: US based researchers to visit an Irish institute (see Fulbright website). Must hold a PhD with minimum 2 years teaching 3rd level.

Fulbright (outgoing)

As part of the GSI Research Programme, and in partnership with the Fulbright Commission, the GSI will sponsor a US based geoscience researcher to visit a geoscience research department in Ireland.

Funding is available for scholars (post-PhD researchers with minimum of 2 years teaching at third level) to stay in Ireland for a minimum of one semester up to a maximum of one full academic year (10 months).

Applicants must be of high quality and ordinarily based in the United States. Standard Fulbright eligibility criteria apply and submissions will be assessed by experts through the Fulbright Commission.

We would encourage you to contact your colleagues in the US to highlight this call.
More information is available on the Fulbright Ireland website.