Downloadable PDF version – ARC Post Award Guidance including Major Investments: Responding to the impact of COVID-19.
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Some variation requests will not be required until the End of Year Report
The following variations can now be approved at the discretion of Administering Organisations and notified to the ARC in the 2021 End of the Year Report submitted in March 2022:
The following extensions to notification and reporting deadlines are applied to all projects:
Administering Organisations can also seek other variations to projects due to the impact of COVID-19, including:
Projects that require deferrals or suspensions beyond 18 months will be assessed on a case-by-case basis (Refer to the Principles of Guidance).
Note: In deferring, suspending or extending a current ARC project, researchers should take into account the impact on their project limits for holding active ARC grants and eligibility to apply for future ARC grants. The limits on holding active grants remain the same and there are currently no plans to change the application and project limits for grant opportunities scheduled to open later this year.