Funding Opportunities Database

This is a comprehensive database of international and Australian funding opportunities, and includes opportunities in all academic discipline areas. Many of the international schemes are open to Australia researchers, and most Australian schemes are included. Any ECU staff member or postgraduate student with an expertise profile on COS can access this database from any Internet connected computer in the world via their workbench. Staff who do not have a profile can access the database from any ECU networked computer.

Expertise Profiles

These profiles are maintained by individual staff, and are required to receive funding alerts. They provide comprehensive information on past, current and emerging research interests, together with contact details, keywords, publications, grants and patents. Each profile has a unique URL, and can be used to generate a Word formatted CV. Any ECU staff member or postgraduate student without a profile is welcome to establish one.

Expertise Database

For ECU, information held in the profiles provides a searchable database of all ECU expertise. This expertise forms part of a global database, which can be used to identify research interests of colleagues from within ECU and internationally. This global database is used by Universities, and organisations that fund research, to identify potential collaborators or research expertise.

Funding Alert Service

"This is a customised e-mail alert service: Individual staff are notified of funding opportunities based on the keywords and other criteria specified in the searches they set up. Staff have full control over their alerts and can revise them at any time to make them broader or more precise. Results of the searches are delivered in a single e-mail each Monday: the email contains links to the relevant COS database records. These can also be viewed from within one's own COS web-based workbench.".

Individual Workbenches

Each profile has its own web-based workbench, which provides full access to Funding Opportunities and the Expertise databases as well as other services. (If you do not have a profile these services can only be accessed via an ECU networked computer.) The workbench provides full access to your saved searchers and funding alerts, and can be customised.

Training Sessions

Training sessions will be run to provide support to users of these services. To arrange a session for yourself, department, centre, school, etc. please contact: research@ecu.edu.au or telephone 6304 5032

Instructions/Tutorials

The following PowerPoint tutorials can be downloaded:

• COS Funding Opportunities
• Using COS Expertise
• Creating a COS Expertise Profile
• Using COS Funding Alerts
• Using COS Workbench

Note: These documents can be downloaded if you are accessing the Internet from an ECU networked computer.

The Office of Research and Innovation welcomes feedback and will pass comments onto COS, who are keen to optimise their services. Feedback and queries can be e-mailed to Research@ecu.edu.au.