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the purposes of this Scheme, those countries are called non-traditional locations.

Targeting of Support
The scheme will be targeted at recent doctoral graduates (not usually more than 2 years after achieving their Ph.D.). It is expected that each individual fellowship will have a duration of 2 years, extendable to 3 years in particular cases where this is merited by the quality of the researcher or the research. Funding is expected to average around $70,000 per fellowship per year for research programmes based in New Zealand. Funding for fellowships for research programmes based outside New Zealand will be adjusted appropriately to reflect travel expenses to and from the country and the local cost of living in the country where the research programme is undertaken. Funding is intended to include financial support for the research itself (including a contribution to overhead costs of the host organisation), as well as a stipend for the researcher.

Fellows under this scheme will be selected on the basis of their academic record, and the scientific excellence of the proposed research. Fellowships will not be specifically targeted at any discipline area, and will be tenable in New Zealand at Crown Research Institutes, universities, Research Associations, polytechnics, business enterprises and private sector research facilities, or overseas in organisations deemed by the Foundation to be equivalent to their New Zealand counterparts, provided the organisation has the capability and the capacity for intellectual and logistical support of the Fellow.

Administration and Selection
The scheme will be administered by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, who may wish to contract some of these responsibilities to the Royal Society. The selection panel will comprise eminent science and engineering researchers.

While being awarded on a personal basis, fellowships may be granted to a host organisation to assist with the logistics of taking up the fellowship.

Where proposals for overseas-based research programmes are in all other respects of equal merit, preference will be given to funding research programmes to be carried out in non-traditional locations.

Funding
The New Zealand Post-Doctoral Fellowships Scheme has $2.535m to allocate in 1995/96.

Monitoring
The scheme will be monitored by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.

3 The New Zealand Graduates in Industry Fellowships
Published in New Zealand Gazette: 11 August 1994.
This notice is hereby revoked and replaced by the following:

The New Zealand Graduates in Industry Fellowships Scheme

Introduction - The Nature of the Scheme
This scheme is intended to assist in developing skills relating to research science and technology. It will provide funds for well-performed graduates in science, technology and engineering to undertake project-based Masters, Ph.D. or other post-graduate research projects, with the projects performed in New Zealand industry.

The Objectives of the Scheme

• upgrade scientific and technological skills and competencies in New Zealand companies;
• increase the number of postgraduate scientists, technologists and engineers working in professional roles in New Zealand industry;
• improve linkages between firms and universities;
• create a stronger interest among graduates for careers in New Zealand industry.

Mechanisms of Support
The objectives of the scheme will be achieved by providing funding for postgraduate researchers in science, engineering or technology who are conducting a major part of their research project in industry.

Targeting of Support
This scheme is aimed at science, technology and engineering graduates who have demonstrated potential to be innovative professionals in industry. This potential may be evident through demonstrated practical achievements, and not only by narrowly academic criteria.

Researchers will be awarded funding for a period normally of one to four years. Joint applications will normally identify the researcher, the academic supervisor, and the mentor in the company, and include their statements of commitment to the project.

The scheme will provide funds for the researcher and will contribute to other costs associated with the project. Funding levels are to be determined by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, on the advice of an advisory committee, on a case by case basis. In making its decisions, the Foundation will optimise the number of fellowships in accordance with the objectives of the scheme.

Administration and Selection
The fellowships will be administered by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, using the mechanism of an advisory committee chaired by a member of the Foundation, and comprising science and engineering researchers and industrialists who have substantial experience supervising joint research projects of the kind supported by this scheme.

Funding
The scheme has $1.560m to allocate in 1995/96 for 35 to 45 fellowships.

Monitoring
The scheme will be monitored by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.

4 Non-Specific Output Funding
Published in the New Zealand Gazette: 11 August 1994.
This notice is hereby revoked and replaced by the following:

Non-Specific Output Funding

Nature of the Scheme
Non-Specific Output Funding (NSOF) is intended to facilitate research and is granted directly to Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) for public good science and technology programmes which do not have to conform to the Government’s priority statement for public good science and technology.

Objectives:
NSOF may be used for:

• exploring new ideas which are not sufficiently well formed to enable a programme proposal to be made to the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (the Foundation); and
• maintaining programmes which are important to the