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Annex E2 Support for University-based astronomy from the National Competitive Grants Program
Australian astronomers are quite succ essful in accessing s upport for their research under the National Competitive Grants Program managed by the ARC. The following information has been deriv ed from information on the ARC's website at www. arc.gov. au. 1. Grant fundi ng for Astr onomy Australian astronomers (RFCD c ode 24010000) have been successful in obt aining research support from a number for the ARC's programs · Significant funds have been garnered from t he from the Discovery Projects, Disc overy Fellows hips and Federation Fellows hips programs (post their starting in 2001), and prior to that from the Large Research Grants and Fellows hip programs · Smaller amounts of support hav e been provided from the Special Res earch Initiatives programs through seed funding for ARC Res earc h Net works (in 2003) and E-Research (in 2005-2006). Discovery, Lar ge Research Grants and Fell owshi p programs typically run for three y ears (or in a few cases 5 years). The following table summarises successf ul grants as reported by the ARC web site for grants with funding start dates from 2000 onwards. `AWARD' is the total awarded in all future years from funding rounds in that year. `SPEND' is the spend in each calendar year, based on the ARC reported spend profiles for each grant. (As a res ult the `SPEND c olumn is incomplet e for years 2003 and earlier, though 2003 is only likely to be inc omplete by a very s mall amount (<5%). Similarly the Spend in 2006 is inc omplete, since it does not reflect awards that will be made from the current round for grants starting in 2006).
ARC Discovery, Fellowship & Large Research grants in astronomy AWARD Totals (A$) SPEND Totals (A$) 2000 $ 1,210,000 2000 $ 342,000 2001 $ 3,225,500 2001 $ 1,341,500 2002 $ 5,339,492 2002 $ 2,533,269 2003 $ 6,809,011 2003 $ 4,469,753 2004 $ 5,324,000 2004 $ 5,132,530 2005 $ 4,369,882 2005 $ 5,978,724 2006 $ 3,987,534

Federation Fell owshi ps have been awarded sinc e 2002 ­ one in each of 2002, 2003, 2004 and two in 2005. Budgets for these grants are not reported by the ARC, so they hav e be accounted for with an av erage value of A$300k per annum, and assuming the two awarded in 2005 will be half funded in 2005. In addition one of the 2005 fellows is eligible for a `startup' grant report ed to hav e value of A$240k in 2005/06 and A$159k in 2006/07 ­ it is assumed these will be spent in 2006 and 2007 respectively.


Federation Fellows SPEND (A$) 2002 $ 300,000 2003 $ 600,000 2004 $ 900,000 2005 $ 1,500,000 2006 $ 1,740,000 2007 $ 1,659,000

ARC LIEF awards to astronomy c an be found on the web for the past four y ears and are as follows. The LIEF awards hav e been s eparated into "Gemini" and "NonGemini" c omponents. The latter component specif ically funds Australia's access to the international Gemini facility, and so is not relevant for a calc ulation of the total NCGP s upport for research support of Univ ersity-level facilities: Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 Gemi ni ($k) 160 186 185 146 Non-Gemi ni ($k) 450 1172 0 782

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Special Resear ch Initiati ves and Network Seed Funding funding for thes e initiativ es was as follows Year 2003 2004 2005 2006 Fundi ng ($k) 40 (net work seed) 182. 8 (e-res earc h) 182. 8 (e-res earc h)

Australian astronomy has not received any funding under the Linkage Pr ojects scheme. Wit h the exc eption of the Gemini LIEF awards, these grants hav e all directly contributed to support of research in Australia's universities, so we hav e the following annual SPENDS on univ ersity res earc h support from 2003 onwards Year 2003 2004 2005 Fundi ng ($k) 6.28 6.03 8.44

2. Size of the ARC's Nati onal Competitive Gr ant Progr amme. The ARC Budget for 2005-2006 (http://www. dest. gov.au/NR/ rdonlyres/E030628FAA94-4CA4-A6E7-2873371CD82A/5403/ 200506_DEST_PBS_11_ARC.rtf) reports its past funding for the NCGP, and budgets through to 2006-2007 (Figure 2) together with forward estimates out to 2008-09 (Table 5.8). These have been combined to produc e the following figure and table. It is notable that over the period 2001-02 to 2005-06 the NCGP will have grown at an average of A$69m/yr.


2001- 02 270732

2002- 03 363301

ARC Administered NCGP funds 2003- 04 2004- 05 2005- 06 2006- 07 413858 481406 556467 567700

2007- 08 579900

2008- 09 594700

From thes e totals we can estimate that ov er the period 2003 to 2005, the NCGP spend on support of research in univ ersities (not including Gemini) has averaged 1.53% of the available ARC funds in that year (or alternatively, 1.66% of the ARC funds av ailable per annum in the prev ious three years when most commit ments are made). Chris Tinney, 1 Sept ember 2005