Discovery Program (2019 edition)
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10. Successful grant applications
The grant agreement
10.1. If You are successful, You must enter into a legally binding grant agreement with the Commonwealth represented by the ARC.
10.2. We use the ARC Discovery Program grant agreement which contains standard terms and conditions that cannot be changed. A sample grant agreement is available on GrantConnect. Any special conditions attached to the grant will be identified in the grant offer.
10.3. You will have 28 calendar days from the date of the grant offer to execute this grant agreement with the Commonwealth.
10.4. We must execute a grant agreement with You before We can make any payments. We are not responsible for any of Your project expenditure until a grant agreement is executed. You must not start any activities until all third party agreements are executed.
Specific research policies and practices
10.5. You and each participant are required to be compliant with all relevant laws and regulations. In particular, You must certify in Your application that You comply with the following requirements.
Ethics and Research Practices
10.6. All applications and ARC-funded research projects must comply with the requirements specified in the ethics and research codes, practices and policies on the ARC website.
Intellectual Property
10.7. We do not claim ownership of any intellectual property in an application or in any research arising from a project. All research projects funded by us must comply with practices and policies on the ARC website.
Publication and dissemination of research outputs and research data
10.8. All research projects funded by us must comply with the ARC Open Access Policy on the dissemination of research findings, which is on the ARC website. We strongly encourage:
- the depositing of data arising from a project in an appropriate publicly accessible discipline and/or institutional repository; and
- all participants applying for grants to have a Persistent Identifier such as an Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID ID) in their RMS Profile.
How We pay the grant
10.9. Payments will be made as set out in the grant agreement. Grant funding will typically be paid monthly through Our payment system.
10.10. The grant offer will specify the approved grant amount to be paid.