The CARDI Grants Programme aims to promote north-south research partnerships that bring together different subject areas to look at issues affecting older people in new ways. It encourages ground-breaking studies that bring together different disciplines across the island of Ireland in ways that can help improve the lives of our older people and help plan for all our futures.

CARDI has to date awarded funding to 25 research projects and networks through its grants programme. These projects cover a wide spectrum of research, reflecting the huge range of issues relevant to the ageing research agenda. They bring together researchers from many disciplines including medicine, gerontology, economics, psychology, physics, geography and sociology to work together in a cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary manner.