Expenditure on equipment and facilitiesExpenditure on equipment and facilities

Expenditure on equipment and facilities

The amount of funding sought from the ARC must exceed $100,000 (net of GST). Funding may be sought only for expenditure related to research infrastructure and equipment and facilities such as:

• equipment purchase and installation;
• facilities such as computing centres, centrifugation facilities, animal houses, herbaria, experimental farms but not including capital works (see Section 5.4);
• salaries if these are directly associated with creating and installing the facility;
• consortium membership costs, travel to the facility, and secretariat costs in the case of Australia’s participation in significant international-scale projects; and
• library and information infrastructure (non-capital aspects only to support specific research projects). Applicants should refer to the advice at Appendix 2 of these Funding Rules.