The Special Research Initiatives (SRI) scheme provides funding for new and emerging fields of research and builds capacity in strategically important areas. The ARC currently funds several SRIs in a wide range of research areas.
The objective of the SRI scheme is to support high-quality research which will assist in advancing Australia’s research excellence to be globally competitive and deliver benefits to the community. This extends, but is not limited, to supporting research-related activities which will respond to emerging opportunities or changing priorities.
The SRI scheme provides funding to support: cooperative activities amongst researchers; cooperative development of national and international linkages; cooperative development of innovative research areas; activities aimed at building the scale and focus of research and research training; and other activities that the ARC judges to be consistent with the scheme’s objectives.
Funding may also be used to develop networks and initiate collaborations that would be unlikely to occur otherwise and, where appropriate, disseminate the outcomes of the collaborative activities funded under the scheme.
Funding under the SRI scheme is available to support activities related to high‑quality research in all or any fields of research supported by the ARC.
Applications for SRI funding may be submitted only when invited by the ARC by means of a call for proposal(s) for funding.
Initiatives for funding in 2014
Initiatives for funding in 2012
Initiatives for funding in 2011
Initiatives for funding in 2010
Initiatives for funding in 2009
Initiatives for funding in 2006
Initiatives for funding in 2000
Links:
[1] http://www.arc.gov.au/special-research-initiative-antarctic-gateway-partnership
[2] http://www.arc.gov.au/special-research-initiative-tropical-health-and-medicine
[3] http://www.arc.gov.au/special-research-initiative-type-1-juvenile-diabetes
[4] http://www.arc.gov.au/arc-special-research-initiative-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-researchers-network
[5] http://www.arc.gov.au/special-research-initiative-science-learning-research-centre
[6] http://www.arc.gov.au/special-research-initiative-synchrotron-science
[7] http://www.arc.gov.au/stem-cell-science
[8] http://www.arc.gov.au/research-bionic-vision-science-and-technology
[9] http://www.arc.gov.au/european-molecular-biology-laboratory
[10] http://www.arc.gov.au/arc-centre-excellence-policing-and-security
[11] http://www.arc.gov.au/australian-and-new-zealand-council-care-animals-research-and-teaching