Our Impact

We are driving a national-scale initiative to provide innovative and high-impact digital infrastructure solutions to real-world problems. Translational Research Data Challenges projects operate at the intersection of research and broader society to provide tangible and enduring economic, environmental and social benefits to Australia. We’re already collaborating with partners to address data challenges for food security and bushfire response and prevention.

We are focused on supporting the greatest number of researchers through a small number of strategic priority areas. Our Thematic Research Data Commons (RDC) initiative is delivering a fabric of digital research infrastructure capabilities selected strategically rather than competitively, and co-designed with the research community. We’re starting in 2022 with two pilot thematic RDCs supported by $15.8 million from the Australian Government’s 2020 Research Infrastructure Investment Plan. The first is now underway, People Thematic Research Data Commons