Part of:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

The UK Science and Innovation Network promotes and facilitates international collaboration in research and innovation.

Science and Innovation are at the heart of government strategy for promoting prosperity and growth. Research and knowledge is increasingly developed and transferred through international collaboration which provides opportunities to work with the best in the world, create student and researcher exchanges, and gain access to large-scale international facilities; leading to mutual benefits for the UK and Ireland.

Responsibilities and priorities

To promote international collaboration, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office jointly fund the UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN), based in over 40 countries around the world.

SIN works across the entire UK science and innovation landscape, supporting UK stakeholders to make international connections, set up strategic collaborations and leverage research and innovation funding, driving global prosperity and growth.

SIN Ireland facilitates policy exchange between the UK and Ireland as well as nurturing and stimulating collaborative partnerships and projects between the two countries. SIN Ireland actively engages with stakeholders and key opinion leaders throughout the science and innovation landscape in order to develop, deliver and contribute to programs, projects, visits, events and further activities to promote and facilitate UK-Ireland collaboration in science and innovation.

Read the latest Science and Innovation Network Ireland snapshot.

Key areas of focus for SIN Ireland include:

  • Climate, Energy and Sustainable Agriculture
  • Digital Economy/Cyber/Emerging tech
  • Health and Life Sciences

Beyond these thematic areas, SIN Ireland works in line with the latest developments impacting Science and Innovation, such as the new UK Industrial Strategy, the creation of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), as well as Brexit-related issues.

For more information about past projects run by officers from around the Network in Europe, Russia and Turkey, see the Science & Innovation Network Europe blog.

If you are looking to work with researchers or innovators in the UK or Ireland, then please get in touch with the SIN Ireland.

Contact us

Julie Taylor, MBA BSc
Science and Innovation Officer

British Embassy Ireland
29 Merrion Road
Dublin 4
Ireland
D04 P272

Email: julie.taylor@fcdo.gov.uk

Telephone: +353 (0) 1 205 3782