In Australia, the 2013 review into the NHMRC funding schemes has recommended streamlining grant proposals [ 6].
Under contract with NIH, for example, Discovery Logic provides IT services that are helping to streamline the grant-approval process.
Suggested alternatives include bringing the lottery under public-sector control and handing its operation to the existing regulator, the National Lottery Commission; streamlining the grant-application process; and creating a promotional body to make much of lottery-funded "good causes", which, the DCMS feels, should include more small community projects in poorer parts of the country.
The strong mandate should enable Mr. Orban, 47, to follow through on his pledge to streamline the government bureaucracy, grant citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries and cut the number of parliamentary deputies in half.
Biomedical researchers are sure to find a lot to like about CIRM 2.0, especially Mills' commitment to streamline the program's grant and loan approval process for projects aimed at clinical trials of potential therapies.
The NHMRC has started a Streamlining Application and Assessment Project, 29 and the most recent federal budget assigned $A9.9 million over 5 years from 2014 2015 to "develop a nationally consistent approach to the way clinical research trials are overseen and conducted and to streamline and simplify National Health and Medical Research Council grant application and assessment processes".
The report was greeted with approval by the Obama administration, which has called for greater infrastructure investment from government and private sources, and has moved to streamline the process of granting permits and getting projects under way.
3 The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia began streamlining their Project Grant application process in 2014.
Even if it is merely a resource issue, there were and are bipartisan bills that would streamline the application process and grant more resources.
