Descriptions and definitions for grant applications

Consultation and collaboration

These two concepts can take a number of meanings and operate in different ways in different contexts.  A useful discussion of these concepts is found in Dissemination, Adoption & Adaptation of Project Innovations in Higher Education (2005) (pp.163-165)

Deliverable

In the context of the Grants Scheme a deliverable is a product or activity arising from the proposed project.  Deliverables include workshops, reports, learning objects etc.

Dissemination

In the context of the Grants Scheme the definition in Strategies for effective dissemination of project outcomes (2005) will be applied:

“dissemination is understood to be more than distribution of information or making it available in some way.  While embracing this aspect, dissemination also implies that some action has been taken to embed and upscale the innovation within its own context (discipline or institution) and/or to replicate or transform an innovation in a new context and to embed the innovation in that new context” (p.2).

Innovation

In the context of the Grants Scheme the definition in Strategies for effective dissemination of project outcomes (2005) will be applied: “the term ‘innovation’ refers to an idea, product, process or service that adds value, is useful or transforms current practice in the context to which it is applied. ‘First-generation innovators’ are those who do or create something new or different. ‘Second-generation innovators’ are those who take an innovation from one context and replicate, adapt or transform it for use within a new context” (p.2).

Intellectual Property Rights

includes all copyright (including rights in relation to phonograms and broadcasts), all rights in relation to inventions (including patent rights), plant varieties, registered and unregistered trademarks (including service marks), registered designs, circuit layouts, and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.

Outcome

in the context of applications under the Grants Scheme an outcome is an achievement which the project is designed to accomplish, preferably described in a form that is measurable or for which evidence can be provided. To prepare an outcome statement as part of an expression of interest or project proposal, the question that should be posed is: what is the project designed to achieve and how will the project team know they have been successful? A number of unplanned outcomes are likely from any project. These should be included in the final report along with the success in achieving the nominated project outcomes.

Project Material

includes documents, equipment, software, goods, information and data stored by any means.