Sch Appendix EPartner Organisations

Appendix E – Partner Organisations

E1 General Eligibility

E1.1 To be an eligible Partner Organisation, an organisation must be:

a. a private sector organisation;

b. a private non-profit organisation; or

c. a Government organisation – in general, State, Territory or Commonwealth Government organisations are eligible to participate as Partner Organisations where funds they are committing to the project have not previously been appropriated either for internal research-related activities or for any other purpose of research, research evaluation and/or Consultancy.

E1.2 Notwithstanding the above, the following organisations and types of organisation are not eligible as Partner Organisations:

a. Australian higher education organisations and their controlled entities, including their commercial arms;

b. any Australian organisation which in the ARC’s opinion is associated with a higher education organisation and which in the ARC’s opinion provides undergraduate or postgraduate training as a substantial part of its activities;

c. Rural Research and Development Boards / Corporations;

d. State and Territory Government Research and Development organisations;

e. Co-operative Research Centres;

f. the Defence Science and Technology Organisation;

g. the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation;

h. the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation;

i. Geoscience Australia;

j. the Australian Institute of Marine Science;

k. the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the Australian National University;

l. the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist;

m. the Australian Antarctic Division;

n. any entity (for example joint ventures) where a majority of the membership is made up of, or ownership and/or control is exercised by, other organisations or their representatives, which are not themselves eligible to be a Partner Organisation; and

o. any organisation which, in the opinion of the ARC, receives substantial funding from State, Territory or Commonwealth Government sources or from Governments of other countries and the ARC considers such funding is provided mainly for research or research-related activities.

E1.3 A Proposal on which an organisation receives substantial funding from State, Territory or Commonwealth Government sources or from Governments of other countries, must include financial information such as a summary statement which might be included in an annual report and details regarding the sources from which the organisation receives funds, the amount received from such sources and the purposes for which it receives the funds.