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Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

The Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme fosters collaboration through its support of the cooperative use of national and international research facilities.

Essentially, the scheme provides funding for large-scale cooperative initiatives so that expensive infrastructure, equipment and facilities can be shared by researchers in partnered organisations. However, the ARC may fund single-organisation proposals in some circumstances.

Under the scheme, applicants may seek funding for:

  • infrastructure, equipment and facility purchases, construction and installation
  • major computing/data facilities, animal houses, herbaria and experimental farms
  • salaries directly associated with creating and installing infrastructure, equipment or facilities
  • consortium membership costs, travel to the facility and secretariat costs in the case of Australia's participation in the use of significant international-scale research facilities
  • library and research information infrastructure.

Objectives

  • encourage institutions to develop collaborative arrangements among themselves, across the higher education sector and with organisations outside the sector, in order to develop research infrastructure;
  • support large-scale cooperative initiatives involving two or more institutions, thereby allowing expensive facilities to be shared;
  • enhance support for areas of research strength; and
  • ensure that researchers in fields of recognised research potential have access to the support necessary for development.

Applications for funding under the Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme are processed once a year.

Content Last Modified:

19/03/09


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