MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENTS (MIAs) ARE NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE ARMS PORTAL

Please be advise that the following Multi-Institutional Agreements (MIAs) are now available for download from the ARMS portal:

Australian Research Council Discovery Projects (DPs) – We thank UoM for taking the lead.
National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials – We thank UQ for taking the lead.
National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grants – We thank UQ for taking the lead.
National Health and Medical Research Council General – We thank UQ for taking the lead.

Instructions are provided below on how to access these documents through the ARMS portal.

Note also that:

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) MIA will be made available next year. We thank ANU for taking the lead on revising this agreement.
The Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Program (LP) MIA was last revised in September this year and is available on the ARMS portal. We thank UWA for taking the lead.
We have also received enquiries about the status of the Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) MIA. This agreement was last amended in 2019 by the University of Sydney. In order to expedite its review, we are now seeking volunteers to assist. Please contact the ARMS Executive Office, Maria.Zollo@flinders.edu.au if your organisation would like to lead the review.

Downloading MIAs from the ARMS portal:

To access go to :

Select Members tab and click onto resources:

Then scroll and select folder of your preference:

Or:

These documents are only available to ARMS members via the ARMS Members' portal. When accessing documents you will be asked to enter your user id and password.

Experiencing problems downloading these documents?

Please contact the ARMS Executive Office, Kaeisha Kilmister, email Kaeisha.Kilmister@flinders.edu.au

ARMS UNIVERSITY CONTRACTING WORKING PARTY QUESTIONNAIRE - WE VALUE YOUR INPUT!

Through the Directors of Research Special Interest Group, the ARMS University Research Contracting Working Party was established to develop the principles, resources and frameworks that support efficient University to University contracting of research agreements.

In order to obtain a better understanding of the pain points, opportunities and best practices, the working group has designed a survey based around the Multi Institutional Agreement (MIA) as the document to bind them all. It is anticipated that the survey results should give us some enormously beneficial insights and acuity in helping understand the issues that Research Management Professionals are facing.

Click on the link ARMS University Research Contracting Working Party: Questionnaire #1 to commence the survey.

The ARMS University Research Contracting Working Party will, through the course of the year, move to other parts of the research contracting lifecycle but felt that this is an important starting point.

Responses from offices that get involved in the contracting process including your legal office and knowledge transfer office are encouraged. We understand that processes differ across institutions and so we have not been prescriptive. It is anticipated that some of you may wish to seek feedback from other parts of the University separate to the Research Office; those offices need only comment on the questions they feel are relevant to them.

Responses by 14 January 2022 are appreciated.

We will be happy to provide you anonymised responses particular to your organisation – while we are working across the collective, you may find it helpful to inform research management provision within your institution.

Dr Jodi Clyde-Smith on behalf of the ARMS University Research Contracting Working Party.

ARMS EXECUTIVE OFFICE HOLIDAY BREAK

On behalf of the ARMS Executive Office we wish all our valued members, corporate partners, sponsors and all key stakeholders the very best for the holiday season and the new year ahead.

Please be advised that the ARMS Executive Office will close for a short break from 1 PM AEDT, Thursday the 23rd of December and will re-open on Tuesday the 4th of January 2021.