The Linkage - Infrastructure programme provides funding for collaborative proposals by two or more institutions for larger equipment and facilities.
Funding is for the development of research infrastructure in higher education institutions.
Linkage Infrastructure has four objectives encourage institutions to develop collaborative arrangements among themselves, across the higher education sector and with organisations outside the sector, in order to develop research infrastructure support large-scale cooperative initiatives involving two or more institutions, thereby allowing expensive facilities to be shared enhance support for areas of research strength ensure that researchers in fields of recognised research potential have access to the support necessary for development Funding for this program is available for high quality research endeavours in all areas except clinical medicine and dentistry. This includes work in the social sciences and humanities as well as the natural sciences and engineering. Funding is normally for one year only and is not recurrent, except where international agreements and national facilities are involved. GAMS User Ids, passwords and electronic application forms will be available in early January 2001. Until this time, a PDF version of the form has been made available on the ARC web site to help researchers plan their application summary data.