Goals, Strategies & Performance Indicators

Strategy

Projects

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Fostering research collaboration

·   Application-centric workshops to define common problems and platforms for EII (including benchmark datasets)

·   Topic-centric workshops to stimulate exchanges for EII members in the same or overlapping areas

·   Seed funding (e.g., as travel support) to encourage cross-institution collaboration

·   Number of collaborations established

·   Number of students exchanged

·   Number of common initiatives established

·   Number joint research grant applications

·   Number of joint PhD supervisions

·   Number of joint publications

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Raising the profile of the EII research community

·   Lecture tours by leading EII members and EII-sponsored guest lecturers

·   Promotion of EII in various professional associations and via member’s contacts

·   Advocacy and sponsorships to attract research students, such as national competitions and student awards

·   General awareness of EII research

·   Number of representations by EII members in key national and international organisations

·   Number of PhD /Hons students doing EII-related research

Nurturing new blood

·   Annual summer school for postgraduate students

·   ERCs travel awards

·   Delegation and empowerment  of ERCs for major EII activities (such as organising workshops and leading taskforces)

·   Opportunities for ECRs to work within EII on specific tasks

·   Number of ECRs in EII network

·   Number of EII ERCs  taking leadership roles in EII and EII-sponsored activities

·   Number of EII ECRs taking leaderships roles in national & international research

·   Ratio of PhD completions

Establishing genuine collaboration with leading international research groups and standardisation bodies

·   Tracking start-of-the-art research by setting up and funding taskforces

·   Establishing exchange programs with selected international groups, and using EII funding to seek matching funding to facilitate exchanges

·   Seed grants for establishing new international collaborations as determined strategically important to EII

·   Seed funding to encourage and facilitate collaborative grant applications for externally-funded cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects.

·   Funding to extend Australian visits of leading international experts

·   Number and duration of visits by EII members to visit international leading groups

·   Number and duration of leading international experts visiting EII members

·   Number of joint publications with leading international researchers

·   Number of joint grant applications with leading international researchers

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Projects

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Changing research culture from valuing publication numbers to valuing quality

·   Compile and maintain ranking of international conferences and journals

·   Newsletter to announce publications in the high ranking sources

·   Establish recognition mechanisms

·   Mentoring systems to help ERCs to target top publications

·   Number of publications in leading conferences and journals

·   Number of patents

·   Increase in per-person and per-paper citations

Identifying new opportunities through collaboration on new-frontier and large-scale problems

·   Topic-based and application-based workshops to identify large scale opportunities

·   Special taskforces to set up common platforms and define approaches for EII members to collaborate 

·   Number of larger-than-average ARC grants

·   Percentage of total amount of research grants for EII members for 2006-2008 over that for 2002-2004

·   Increase in per-person research grants of EII members

Raising the international profile of EII research in Australia

·   Attract one top conference to Australia every year

·   Invite and fund 2 leading international experts to visit Australia for an extended period (avg 3 months per visit)

·   Invitations to address international conferences and funded visits

·   Number of self-funded international visits to EII members

·   No. of editorial board memberships

·   No. of conference chair/program committee memberships

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Making EII expertise and research results useful to targeted user groups

·   Participating in strategic planning activities of federal and state governments

·   Attending and addressing selected user conferences

·   No. & nature of user groups identified

·   Number of government, industry and user group briefings

·   Number of user groups seeking technical advice

·   Number & nature of public awareness programs

·   Number of research papers presented in user conferences

Building strategic relationships with major national and international industry players and user groups

·   Outlook workshop (once a year) to showcase EII research results and expertise to invited industry players and user groups

·   Industry placement and internship (funded by the industry and EII)

·   Technology updates by EII members in each capital city

·   Number of ARC linkage grants and applications

·   Number of major strategic industry partners

·   Number of industry participants in EII

·   Number of industry consultancies by EII members

·   Number of industry-funded internships for EII PhD and Honours students

·   Number of industry-linked PhD and Honours projects

·   Amount of cash and in-kind commitment from industry

Collaborating with other research communities

·   Engagement with research leaders in selected research areas where EII research can be applied as core EII participants and members

·   Establish a Research Program for vertical applications, with a dedicated and experienced program leader and a committed team

·   Vertical application workshops (with EII members, collaborators and end-users in a specific domain): two a year

·   Research seminars by EII members to other research communities

·   Seed funding to encourage and facilitate cross-disciplinary research projects

·   Number and depth of case studies for different research fields

·   Number of researchers from other research communities to attend EII activities

·   Number of invitations for EII members to visit and participate in activities by other research communities

·   Number of joint ARC and other research grants between EII members and researchers from other research communities

·   Number of research papers published by EII members in multi-disciplinary conferences

Addressing national research priority areas

·   Select vertical applications, taskforces and user groups considering national research priority areas

·   Number of publications in national research priority areas

·   Number of research grants in national research priority areas