6Cross-scheme issues

6                          Cross-scheme issues

6.1                   Cross-scheme funding

6.1.1               The ARC will not duplicate financial assistance for research already funded by the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth reserves the right to determine if a Proposal duplicates or is likely to duplicate research being funded by another Commonwealth source. In such circumstances the ARC may in its absolute discretion decide to not recommend the Proposal for approval.

6.1.2               Subject to subsections 1.4.2, 5.1.9 - 5.1.11 and 6.1.1 and Section 6.2, research funding received or sought elsewhere for the project or the Federation Fellowship candidate (outside the Federation Fellowships scheme) does not affect the eligibility of a Proposal within the Federation Fellowships scheme.

6.2                   Cross-scheme eligibility

6.2.1               If a funding request for any proposed research project, salary or equipment has been or is being submitted to another ARC scheme or to any other Commonwealth funding body, each Proposal must be cross-referenced and summary details of all other funding requests must be included in the Proposal. Proposals must indicate the level of funding obtained, or being sought, from all other Commonwealth funding sources and must list all existing research funding from all Commonwealth sources. If these processes are not observed or the ARC determines that incomplete, misleading or inaccurate details were included in the Proposal, the ARC may in its absolute discretion decide to not recommend the Federation Fellowships Proposal for approval.

6.2.2               If the Federation Fellowship candidate is concurrently the subject of multiple ARC Fellowship requests, whether these are in one or more ARC schemes or involve different administering organisations, the Proposals must be cross-referenced. If more than one of these Fellowship requests is approved for funding, only one Fellowship can be accepted.

6.2.3               The ARC may liaise with other funding agencies to discuss any overlap between proposed or existing research projects in order to avoid duplication of funding. The ARC may for this purpose disclose to that agency any information in a Proposal.

6.3                   Researchers from Commonwealth-funded Research Centres

6.3.1 Directors of ARC Centres may be nominated for a Federation Fellowship. A Federation Fellow may serve as a Centre Director or Research Director, provided that the ARC is satisfied that he/she will work full-time on research and research capacity-building activities and that the Fellow’s administrative duties in the Centre will not consume a substantial amount of her/his time.

6.4                   Funding of clinical medical and dental research