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Authority, advise the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security and take any other steps required under the ARC Act.
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We notify You of the outcome.
We advise You if Your application was successful or not through RMS.
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We enter into a grant agreement with You.
We will enter into a grant agreement with You through RMS, if You are successful.
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Delivery of the grant.
You undertake the grant activity and report to Us as set out in Your grant agreement.
We manage the grant, monitor Your progress and make payments.
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Evaluation of the grant opportunity.
We evaluate the specific grant activity and the grant opportunity as a whole.
We will use information You provide to Us through Your reports to inform evaluations.

2.              About the Linkage program
2.1.                  The Linkage Program is one of two Programs under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP). Information about the Linkage Program is available on the ARC website.
2.2.                  The ARC administers funding of excellent pure basic, strategic basic and applied research in all disciplines under the NCGP, excluding medical research. The ARC does not fund experimental development.

About the ARC Centres of Excellence grant opportunity
2.3.                  The ARC Centres of Excellence scheme is funded under the Linkage Program.
2.4.                  The ARC Centres of Excellence grant opportunity facilitates significant collaboration at scale which enables the complementary resources of universities, other research organisations, governments and businesses, not for profit organisations to support outstanding pure basic, strategic basic and/or applied research in all fields (except medical research).
2.5.                  The ARC Centres of Excellence are prestigious focal points of expertise through which high-quality researchers collaboratively maintain and develop Australia's international standing in research areas of national priority.
2.6.                  The ARC Centres of Excellence scheme objectives are to:
          1. undertake internationally innovative, collaborative and transformational interdisciplinary research to address the most challenging and significant research problems, advance knowledge, and deliver knowledge impact;
         b.              synergise Australian research strengths, create new national and international networks and research programs to ensure that Australian research builds critical mass, is globally connected and has the capacity to work on large-scale problems over an extended period of time;
         c.              build capacity and a diverse and inclusive Australian research workforce by attracting and retaining, from within Australia and abroad, established researchers of high international standing as well as high potential early and mid-career researchers and research students;
         d.              develop an exemplary research culture that provides high-quality career development opportunities for research students and early and mid-career researchers and promotes a diverse, equitable and inclusive research environment;
         e.              establish research programs that lead to significant knowledge impact and end-user impact through the delivery of outcomes for partners including industry (private