Delivering national benefit from long term investment
The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) provides Australia with the foundational capability to respond to complex challenges, seize new opportunities and deliver lasting public value.
Research infrastructure takes years to build, requires consistent investment, and delivers benefits over decades. NCRIS provides continuity, coordination and certainty.
A strong return on public investment
By investing nationally, NCRIS:
- Avoids duplication across institutions
- Shares costs and benefits across sectors
- Enables infrastructure to be used at scale
This approach delivers better value for money than fragmented or short term investments.
Supporting Australia’s national priorities
NCRIS infrastructure underpins government priorities by enabling research and innovation that supports:
- Economic productivity and jobs
- Energy transition and climate resilience
- Health, ageing and wellbeing
- National security and sovereign capability
- International engagement and reputation
Reducing risk and increasing readiness
Without ongoing, coordinated investment in research infrastructure:
- Capability gaps emerge
- Critical expertise is lost
- Australia becomes reliant on overseas facilities
NCRIS helps ensure Australia is prepared, adaptable and resilient in the face of future challenges.
Investing in the future, not just the present
Many of the challenges Australia will face, technological, environmental, health related and geopolitical, will require capabilities built years in advance.
NCRIS provides the stable foundation needed to:
- Respond quickly to emerging issues
- Support innovation over the long term
- Build national capability that benefits all Australians