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5 years.

## 3.2 Change Over Time

We take another funding programme, the Research Frontiers Programme, to show how changes over time can be mapped.

This programme follows an annual call, and includes all fields of science, mathematics and engineering. There are approximately 750 submissions annually. There was a 24% success rate (168 awards) in 2007, and 19% (143 awards)
in 2008. The average award was ¤155k in 2007, and ¤161k in 2008. An award runs for three years of funding, and this is moving to four years in 2009 to accommodate a 4-year PhD duration.

We will look at the Computer Science panel results only, over 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Grants awarded in these years, respectively, were: 14, 11, 15, 17. The breakdown by institutes concerned was: UCD - 13; TCD - 10; DCU - 14; UCC - 6; UL - 3; DIT - 3; NUIM - 3; WIT - 1. These institutes are as follows: UCD, University College Dublin; DCU, Dublin City University; UCC, University College Cork; UL, University of Limerick; NUIM, National University of Ireland, Maynooth; DIT, Dublin Institute of Technology; and WIT, Waterford Institute of Technology.

One theme was used to characterize each proposal from among the following: