6Cross-scheme issues

6                          Cross-scheme issues

6.1                   Cross-scheme funding

6.1.1              The ARC will not duplicate financial assistance for research and/or collaboration already funded by the Commonwealth. The ARC reserves the right to determine whether a Proposal duplicates or is likely to duplicate research and/or collaboration being funded by another Commonwealth source. In such circumstances the ARC may in its absolute discretion decide to not recommend the Proposal for approval.  However, if the ARC considers parts of the proposed project remain worthy of support, the ARC may assess the Proposal in the usual way and the ARC may instead recommend that a reduced amount of funding be approved for the Proposal.

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 Linkage International Proposal for approval.

6.2.2              If any researcher is concurrently the subject of multiple fellowship requests, whether these be in one or more ARC schemes, 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 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                   Funding of clinical medical and dental research

6.3.1              The ARC does not fund clinical medical and dental research and training under Linkage International. If the ARC determines that a proposed project would fall within this area of research, the Proposal will not be recommended or approved for funding. In some instances, it may not be clear whether or not the project described in a Proposal would fall within this area of research. In these cases, an eligibility ruling may be sought by forwarding a summary of not more than two pages, outlining the proposed research collaboration, according to the process described in Section 7.1.

6.3.2              In all cases, whether or not the above process is observed, the ARC reserves the right to decide whether a proposed research collaboration falls within areas of clinical medical and/or dental research and training.  If the ARC considers that a Proposal falls within this area of research the Proposal will not be recommended or approved for funding.