NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 91 — 12 SEPTEMBER 2017

Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment in supplying administrative services to the Science Board under section 10(7) of the Research, Science, and Technology Act 2010; and

j. advise that the proposed funding recipient will, and the Science Board is of the view that it can, adhere to the terms and conditions of funding set out in an investment contract determined by the Science Board.

Assessment criteria for National Science Challenges funding proposals

6.1 A proposal that has been assessed as eligible for National Science Challenges funding under clause 5.1 must also be assessed having regard to whether:

a. The proposal is collaborative and responds to the most important, national-scale issues for New Zealand and the Challenge objective

The Science Board must consider to what extent the Challenge’s strategy for research, science, technology and related activities in the second funding period builds on the Challenge’s activities in the first funding period to:

• provide a strategic, integrated and multidisciplinary portfolio of research, science, technology and related activities that meets the Challenge objective and outcomes (having reference to the themes), and the needs of end-users;
• build on and make best use of relevant New Zealand and international research, capabilities and user communities, including accessing funding and support from a range of sources; and
• give effect to the Vision Mātauranga policy in clause 3.1.

6.2 In doing this, the Science Board must have regard to the extent to which the proposal meets the following criteria:

a. The research, science, and technology will be of excellent quality

The Science Board must consider to what extent the Challenge’s strategy for research, science, technology and related activities in the second funding period will deliver excellence, and builds on the Challenge’s activities in the first funding period to:

• make best use of, and build the skills and expertise of New Zealand researchers to deliver the Challenge objective and outcomes (having reference to the themes), leveraging international researchers and research organisations, and allowing for the dynamic introduction of new capability, research and researchers;
• contribute to science quality, across a portfolio which appropriately balances high risk, high return research and new knowledge generation with incremental research and helping end-users to take up research (horizons balance), and appropriately balances science disciplines; and
• give effect to the Vision Mātauranga policy in clause 3.1.

b. The proposal is focused on delivering impact

The Science Board must consider to what extent the Challenge’s strategy for research, science, technology and related activities in the second funding period will deliver impact, and builds on the Challenge’s activities in the first funding period to:

• realise a credible pathway to create the impacts necessary to achieve the Challenge’s objectives and outcomes (having reference to the themes);
• deliver benefits and additionality to New Zealand and to New Zealand science; and
• give effect to the Vision Mātauranga policy in clause 3.1.

c. Decision-making and accountability arrangements are sound and enduring

Based on the Challenge’s performance during the first funding period and any proposed changes, the Science Board must confirm that the Challenge’s governance, management, and financial structures, including decision-making and accountability arrangements, are effective, appropriate and give effect to the Vision Mātauranga policy in clause 3.1.

Revocation of Previous Notices