Our role in building Australia’s research future

For more than 20 years, the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) has been a cornerstone of Australia’s research success. NCRIS-supported facilities have played a key role in addressing national priorities.

Approximately $5.5 billion has been invested in large, long-term, highly collaborative and national scale projects led by universities, government agencies and private companies to support world-class research. This of course includes investment in people and operations, not just equipment.

NCRIS provides equipment, data, services and expertise to enable world-leading research, development and translation for the benefit of all Australians.

The infrastructure is open to anyone – academics, industry, government and the general public – and is co-funded by state and territory governments, industry, universities and research agencies to minimise costs.

The research infrastructure providers enabled by NCRIS includes Bioplatforms Australia which enhances Australian life science research by investing in state-of-the-art infrastructure and expertise in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, synthetic biology - and bioinformatics, through Australian BioCommons.

Managed and overseen by the Australian Government, NCRIS has delivered a wide range of national benefits. To celebrate some of its many successes, the Department of Education produced a booklet which included a case study that describes how Australian BioCommons has supported a research group to automate their data analysis for better border biosecurity.

Read Celebrating 20 Years of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).