2015 Annual Report In FY2015, ACOLA has continued to deliver the first and second tranches ofthe program Securing Australia’s Future (SAF). The eight projects involved to date were designed to provide evidence-based research initially for the Prime Minister’s Science Engineering & Innovation Council (PMSEIC) and more recently for the Commonwealth Science Council. Dr Margaret…
2014 Annual Report In FY2014 ACOLA Secretariat Ltd has continued to deliver the research projects of the first tranche of the program Securing Australia’s Future. The company has also been closely involved in developing and initiating several second tranche SAF projects. All of these were designed to provide evidence based research for the Prime…
2013 Annual Report 2012/13 has seen ACOLA Secretariat Ltd take on a new role, initiated by Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb AO, and utilising its function as the liaison body between the four Learned Academies. Since June 2012, the company has managed a major new three-year multidisciplinary research program Securing Australia’s Future, providing…
2012 Annual Report 2011/12 has seen a rapid expansion of the role of ACOLA as the liaison bodybetween the four Learned Academies. The earlier strengthening of the organisation through the appointment of a professional secretariat has proven to be timely. Those steps enabled ACOLA to swiftly rise to the challenge created early in 2012…
2011 Annual Report 2010/11 has seen a reinvigoration of the affairs of ACOLA, with all four Learned Academies committing to heightened engagement in multidisciplinary projects, over and above the extensive research programs already operating within each organisation. The effects of a professional Secretariat have been to help bring focus and clarity to inter-Academy meetings…