ARC's Thinking Systems Special Research Initiative (see http://www.arc.gov.au/grant_programs/thinking_systems.htm) has a $10M budget, and expects to fund a number of projects up to $750k per annum over five years. The focus of the scheme is very much in HCSNet's domain: the ARC are seeking cross-disciplinary, collaborative, cross-institutional projects that aim at increasing understanding of the biological hardware, programming and operation of thinking systems.

HCSNet is financially supporting small workshop gatherings to take some promising ideas further forward. Below are some links to program sketches supplied by HCSNet participants who are keen to put together proposals for the scheme. If you are interested in any of these, contact the indicated persons. If you would like to advertise a different program sketch and seek involvement from the HCSNet participant base, just send us an email.