6The assessment criteria

6.              The assessment criteria

6.1.                  You must address all of the relevant assessment criteria in Your application. We will assess your application based on the weighting given to each criterion for the relevant application stage.

6.2.                  The application form for both the EOI application and the full application asks questions that relate to the assessment criteria. The amount of detail and supporting evidence You provide in Your application should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. The application form includes character, word and page limits.

6.3.                  The EOI application assessment criteria are criteria a and b. These criteria are weighted as:

1. Research program - Quality and Innovation 70%

b.              Investigators 30%

6.4.                  The full application assessment criteria are criteria a, b, c, d and e. These criteria are weighted as:

1. Research program - Quality and Innovation 20%

b.              Investigators 20%

c.              Institutional Support 20%

d.              Governance, leadership and mentoring 20%

e.              Outcomes and linkages 20%

6.5.                  The assessment criteria for ARC Centres of Excellence are:

1. Research program - Quality and Innovation

Demonstrate this through identifying how the Centre:

          addresses the objectives of the ARC Centres of Excellence grant opportunity;

          will be innovative and potentially transformational, and lead to significant advancement of knowledge, expertise and technologies;

          will build effective collaboration and critical mass across groups of researchers;

          is assembled into an effective and integrated research program (including the proposed conceptual framework, design, human resource commitments, methods and analyses, project structures, budget planning and risk mitigation strategies); and

          will build effective and high quality national and international partnerships, exchanges and networks.

If the project involves research pertaining to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities describe:

          the strategies for enabling collaboration with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities (for example, dialogue/collaboration with an Indigenous cultural mentor);

          any existing or developing, supportive and high-quality relationships with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities; and