The New Zealand Research Information System (NZRIS) is now live, providing a new national platform that brings together information on research funding and research activity from across New Zealand’s research, science and innovation system.
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.