Amendments to ARC reporting requirements: The ARC has introduced annual project reporting by exception for all grants.
Progress reporting by exception
Commencing in 2013, reporting on progress for ALL ARC-funded projects is to be by exception, due by the 31st of March each year.
An Exception Report on Progress – ARC-funded Research - must be submitted only if there are significant issues affecting the progress of a project during the last calendar year.
A significant issue can be taken to have arisen in circumstances in which:
- a delay to the project’s research program could result in the project exceeding by more than 12 months the number of years for which funding has been allocated; and/or
- a disruption to the project has occurred which could potentially compromise the successful achievement of the project’s outcomes.
Such a disruption might, for example, be in the form of:
- a project transfer to a new Administering Organisation;
- the loss of a lead Chief Investigator, Fellow or Award recipient;
- changes to project elements funded as Special Conditions;
- Partner Organisations not meeting their agreed contributions.
These examples are not exhaustive and are not meant to be prescriptive – Project Leaders should exercise judgement as to the need to submit an Exception Report, on a case-by-case basis.
Please note that where issues arise for a project that require a request for approval to be made to the ARC, the request must be submitted through the appropriate channel – for example, an End of Year Report for carryover of funds, or a Variation to Funding Agreement request for changes to investigators or organisations, or transfer of a project or Fellowship – and not as part of progress reporting.
Progress reporting for ARC funding
The Exception report on Progress template is available https://www.research.uwa.edu.au/staff/forms/funding
Exception reports on Progress should be submitted electronically to [email protected]
University information
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