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Investment funds
- Commercialisation Partner Network
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Catalyst Fund
- Catalyst Fund Investment Plan 2024-2028
- New Zealand-Singapore Leveraging AI for Healthy Ageing 2025 Call for Proposals
- New Zealand - Singapore Biotech in Future Food Research Programme Call for Proposals 2025
- New Zealand – Japan Joint Research Programme Call for Proposals 2024
- Australia New Zealand Collaborative Space Research Programme in Earth Observation Call for Proposals
- New Zealand-China Strategic Research Alliance 2024 Call for Proposals
- e-ASIA Joint Research Programme Call for Proposals 2024
- Funded projects
- COVID-19 Innovation Acceleration Fund
- Curious Minds
- Endeavour Fund
- Envirolink Scheme
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Capability Fund
- Extreme weather science response
- He whakawhānui i te pāpātanga o Vision Mātauranga – mahere haumi 2023
- Expanding the Impact of Vision Mātauranga – 2023 investment plan
- MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowship
- National Science Challenges
- Partnerships
- PreSeed Accelerator Fund
- Strategic Science Investment Fund
- Regional Research Institutes Initiative
- Who got funded
- Te Tahua Whakakaha o Te Pūnaha Hihiko
- Te Pūnaha Hihiko: Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund
Strategic Science Investment Fund
The Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) supports strategic investment in research programmes and scientific infrastructure that have long-term beneficial impact on New Zealand’s health, economy, environment and society.
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The SSIF enables a coherent approach to science investment, providing a mechanism to prioritise and purchase science in areas that ensure the long-term stability and impact of the science system.
SSIF Programmes
SSIF Programmes are structured around science platforms. A science platform is 'a combination of people, facilities, information and knowledge that provide a particular, ongoing science and innovation capability for New Zealand'.
Funded programmes
- Advanced Energy Technology platform
- Antarctic Science platform
- Crown Research Institute platforms
- Data Science platform
- Independent Research Organisation platforms
- Infectious Disease Research platform
- New Zealand Agricultural Green House Gas Research Centre
- Ngā Rakau Taketake – combatting kauri dieback and myrtle rust
- Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Development platform
- Natural Hazards and Resilience platform
SSIF Infrastructure
SSIF Infrastructure provides funding for access to and development of large-scale research infrastructure that is needed to undertake research in priority areas.
Funded infrastructure
- Advanced genomics research platform
- Australian Synchrotron
- Enhanced Geohazards Monitoring
- Longitudinal Studies
- Mission Operations Control Centre
- National eScience Infrastructure
- Nationally Significant Collections and Databases
- Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand
- Research Vessel Tangaroa
- Review of scientific collections and databases
SSIF background and funding
Budget 2016 brought several existing investments into the new SSIF and announced additional funding of $63 million over 4 years. An extra $40.5 million was committed
As new priorities are identified and SSIF funding becomes available through Budget processes, organisations will be invited to respond to calls for proposals. Funding has been allocated on merit for proposals that meet the strategic goals and priorities in the SSIF investment plan and subsequent call for proposals.
In 2023/24, SSIF investments total $348 million per year.
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Funded programmes
Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) Programmes provides an active partnership between government and research organisations to deliver government science priorities.
- Advanced Energy Technology platform
- Antarctic Science platform
- Crown Research Institute platforms
- Data Science platform
- Independent Research Organisation platforms
- Infectious Disease research platform
- New Zealand Agricultural Green House Gas Research Centre
- Ngā rākau taketake – combatting kauri dieback and myrtle rust
- Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Development platform
- Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform
Funded infrastructure
The Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) Infrastructure supports infrastructure with high national benefits that will not emerge during usual business because of the scale, complexity, long duration and multi-user nature of the investment.
- Advanced genomics research platform
- Australian Synchrotron
- Enhanced Geohazards Monitoring
- Longitudinal studies infrastructure platform
- Mission Operations Control Centre
- National eScience Infrastructure
- Nationally Significant Collections and Databases
- Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand
- Research Vessel Tangaroa
- Review of scientific collections and databases