The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) receives $42.7 million per year for 3 science platforms - Marine environment, Freshwater environment, and Climate and weather hazards.
The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) receives $12.2 million per year of Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) funding for 2 science platforms – Human and environmental health and Forensic science.
AgResearch receives $44.4 million per year for 2 science platforms – Agri-food production and Premium agri-foods.
The Government invested $34.5 million in a Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) research platform to combat the spread of kauri dieback and myrtle rust.
The Government is investing in a Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform. The purpose of the platform is to enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards so we can better prepare, respond, and recover from natural hazard events.
The Government is investing in an Infectious Disease research platform to ensure New Zealand has world class research capability to respond to serious infectious disease threats.
The Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) Data Science platform, intends to significantly lift New Zealand’s capability, support and encourage dynamic and world class data science research, and deliver on the Government’s data science investment goals.
In 2017 we transferred $193 million of funding per year from Crown Research Institute (CRI) core funding into 16 Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) science platforms across the 7 CRIs.
The Government is investing $49 million in an Antarctic Science Platform to help us understand Antarctica’s impact on the global climate, and how this might change in a warming world.
Advanced Energy Technology is technology at the frontier of innovation, with the potential to advance and disrupt global energy markets.
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