✨ Science Contestable Funding Criteria
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(a) the Public Finance Act 1989 and the relevant Appropriation Acts for Vote Science and Innovation;
(b) the criteria set out in the notice entitled "Description of Funds within Vote RS&T", Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 31 January 2011, No. 9, page 200; and
(c) the criteria specified in the relevant schedule to this notice.
5 GENERAL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SCIENCE-LED CONTESTABLE FUNDING PROPOSALS
5.1 For a proposal to be assessed against the criteria in clause 6, the proposal must:
(a) be made by a research organisation;
(b) not be solely for the benefit of the research organisation;
(c) be for research, science, and technology, or related activities, the majority of which are to be undertaken in New Zealand, unless the Science Board considers that there are compelling reasons to consider the proposal, despite the amount of research, science, and technology, or related activities being proposed to be undertaken overseas; and
(d) meet any eligibility criteria specified in the relevant schedule to this notice.
5.2 For the purposes of clause 5.1(a), "research organisation" means an organisation that has internal capability for carrying out research, science and technology, and related activities.
6 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR SCIENCE-LED CONTESTABLE FUNDING PROPOSALS
A proposal that has been assessed as eligible for Science-led contestable funding under clause 5 must be assessed having regard to the following criteria:
(a) the assessment criteria specified in the relevant schedule to this notice;
(b) the extent to which the proposal is likely to:
(i) achieve the general policy objective of Science-led contestable funding;
(ii) unlock the science and innovation potential of Māori knowledge, resources and people, in accordance with the aim of the Vision Mātauranga policy, in achieving the general policy objective of Science-led contestable funding; and
(c) the extent to which the proposal is likely to achieve the specific policy objectives specified in the relevant schedule to this notice;
(d) the extent to which the proposal is likely to achieve the objectives of the relevant research fund set out in the notice entitled "Description of Funds within Vote RS&T", Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 31 January 2011, No. 9, page 200; and
(e) how the proposal contributes to the overall mix of investments in respect of each research fund, including the extent to which the overall mix of investments:
(i) is likely to best achieve the objectives referred to in clause 6(b)–(d); and
(ii) will ensure that funding is not concurrently provided in respect of any two or more programmes of research, science, and technology, or related activities that are the same or substantially similar (whether those programmes are part of a new proposal or are already being funded); and
(iii) will minimise the risk that an applicant will not be able to undertake the relevant programme of research, science, and technology, or related activities because the applicant, or any person involved in delivering the programme, would concurrently be committed to one or more other
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