✨ Energy and Minerals Research Fund
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Schedule 1
Energy and Minerals Research Fund
1. Funding scope and amounts
1.1 Proposals for funding out of the Energy and Minerals Research Fund may be considered in the 2014 science investment round under the following investment mechanisms:
(a) Phase 2 Smart Ideas—proposals must be for research, science, or technology, or related activities in areas described under the heading "Nature of the fund" in the Energy and Minerals Research Fund section of the notice entitled "Description of Funds within Vote RS&T" published in the Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 31 January 2011, No. 9, page 200.
(b) Targeted Research—proposals must be for research, science, or technology or related activities:
(i) in one of the areas listed as an investment priority in the Targeted Research section below; and
(ii) directed towards answering one or more of the research questions listed under the corresponding investment priority in the Targeted Research section below.
1.2 The Science Board may allocate the following funding amounts from the Energy and Minerals Research Fund for proposals for funding in the 2014 science investment round:
(a) up to $0.35 million per annum (excl GST) for Smart Ideas Phase 2; and
(b) up to $4.0 million per annum (excl GST) for Targeted Research, of which;
(i) up to $0.25 million per annum (excl GST) may be allocated to the joint research question with the High-Value Manufacturing and Services Research Fund.
2. Targeted Research
| Investment priority: Minerals |
|---|
| Greater benefit from mineral resources |
| Research question | Indicative funding (excl GST) |
|---|---|
| How can multi-disciplinary research, with the aim of building exploration models and subsequent validation, improve the understanding of New Zealand’s on-shore mineral resources and contribute to discovering new world-class gold-silver and other commercially valuable mineral deposits? | $1.0 million per annum for up to four years. |
| Research question | Indicative funding (excl GST) |
|---|---|
| What approaches can be developed to improve the understanding and management of the environmental impacts of on-shore mining in New Zealand? | $1.0 million per annum for up to four years. |
| Research question | Indicative funding (excl GST) |
|---|---|
| What are the characteristics, for example location, rock type, and physical properties, of our aggregate resources and how can their use be best leveraged? | $0.25 million per annum for up to four years. |
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