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meet the eligibility criteria for CIs as at the grant commencement date and, if successful, at any time during the project activity period.
4.27.              Researchers who do not meet all of the eligibility criteria for being a CI may be PIs.
For example, a participant may be a PI if they would otherwise be a CI but will not reside in Australia for more than 50 per cent of the project activity period.
4.28.              PIs may, or may not, be an employee of a Partner Organisation.

What are the limits on the number of applications and projects per named participant?
4.29.              These limits only apply to Directors and CIs.
4.30.              The limits are designed to ensure that named participants have the capacity to undertake each project.
4.31.              A named participant can apply for and be concurrently funded through the Linkage Program for a maximum of four Linkage Program projects (not including LIEF) as a CI or Director. For the purposes of counting project limits, Linkage Program projects:
          1. include CIs on Linkage Projects, ITRP and ARC Centres of Excellence projects;
          2. include Directors on ITRP, Special Research Initiatives and ARC Centres of Excellence projects; and
          3. do not include CIs on LIEF, Special Research Initiatives, LASP or Supporting Responses to Commonwealth Science Council Priorities projects.
4.32.              A named participant can be funded for a maximum of one Director role for a Linkage Program project. This includes ITRP, ARC Centres of Excellence and Special Research Initiatives.
4.33.              A named participant on a Research Hub or Training Centre application may be named on other ARC grant opportunity applications and subject to the separate limits on those opportunities, those applications may be retained until the outcome of the relevant ITRP application is known.
4.34.              All named participants on a successful ITRP application must meet the project limit requirements identified at 4.31 and 4.32 above before the project can start. Project limits can be met by relinquishing existing project(s), or relinquishing role(s) on existing projects, or withdrawing application(s) that would exceed the project limits. We reserve the right to determine which grants are to be relinquished.
4.35.              It is Your responsibility to determine if applying for, or holding, a project under these grant guidelines will affect an individual researcher's eligibility for other ARC grant opportunities as other ARC grant opportunities may have different project limits. We reserve the right to change project and application limits in future grant opportunities.

5.                     What the grant money can be used for

Eligible grant activities
5.1.                  The Linkage Program supports research activities that meet the definition of 'research'.

Ineligible grant activities
5.2.                  The Linkage Program does not support applications that involve medical research as detailed in the ARC