The OECD.AI Policy Navigator

Ireland’s National Semiconductor Strategy is being developed to guide research and innovation in semiconductor technologies. Research in this area is conducted at several Research Ireland Centres. A public consultation in 2023 helped shape the strategy, which was published in early 2025.

FFP provides funding for high-risk, high-reward research. It currently funds ~16 active awards in the field of AI.

CeADAR is Ireland’s National Centre for Applied AI. It is a market-focused technology centre for innovation and applied research in AI, machine learning and data analytics across all industry sectors. Enterprise Ireland is working with CeADAR on its next phase plan to scale up the centre.

CONNECT’s research notably focuses on edge computing, e.g. under its Sustainable IoT research area, which addresses challenges such as: Energy harvesting and storage, with power-management algorithms to allow the device to be completely energy autonomous for its entire lifetime Efficient protocols and networking principles for connecting devices at the edge to the network Highly reconfigurable software-defined devices based on low-power platforms.

AI is being adopted across Government Departments and public service bodies. The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, is conducting use case pilot projects. A related objective is implementing a vendor-neutral approach to AI development to develop a generic “building block” approach for reusable services.

The project builds on an established framework for identifying ancient woodlands. It will notably integrate AI-derived digital mapping of long-established woodlands. By developing a methodology for integrating AI-derived digital mapping of historic maps and analysis of contemporary satellite imagery, this project can also help understand long-term changes of other land-cover types.

This framework has been developed to reflect recently established six HSE health regions in Ireland. The mission of the framework is to harness the power of new technologies, digital and data to transform how health and social care services are delivered for its population.

The FactoryxChange (FXC) consortium is led by Irish Manufacturing Research and also integrates the National Centre for high performance computing (ICHEC), the National Centre for data analytics (INSIGHT).