eResearch Infrastructure Platform
The eResearch Infrastructure Platform is a key enabler of digital research in New Zealand. It provides New Zealand institutions and researchers with access to high-performance computers, data storage, data networks, and digital tools that facilitate data intensive research.
The Platform is hosted by the Crown company, Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ) Ltd.
MBIE funding
The government is investing $69.65m (exclusive of GST) over 5 years from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.
REANNZ previously received $39.85m (exclusive of GST) over 8 years between 2017/18 and 2024/25.
The New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) was recently integrated into REANNZ to expand its service and capability offerings related to high performance computing.
About the investment
The Platform supports the development, integration, and sustainability of national-scale eResearch infrastructure that enables data-intensive research.
A key aim of the Platform is to serve the eResearch infrastructure needs of researchers, institutions, and communities across Aotearoa New Zealand, including those with specific aspirations in Māori and Pacific research and education domains.
The Platform will deliver wide-reaching benefits across the research and education ecosystem. It will:
- Provide access to cutting edge technologies, training and support
- Increase the uptake and sophistication of digital research
- Enable the science and education sectors to deliver greater impact
- Accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, with the potential to support economic growth
- Enable national and international collaboration and data sharing.
The Platform will also engage with international eResearch infrastructure initiatives to leverage global expertise and opportunities.
Public statement from our contract with the REANNZ
The creation of a hub for eResearch infrastructure will better support New Zealand/Aotearoa’s research, education and innovation sectors to deliver quality outcomes by maximising the impact of current investment and achieving greater national reach.
eResearch is a prerequisite capability for a world-class research, science and innovation sector. Data, and compute-intensive research and analysis, is now deeply embedded in most academic disciplines and is an essential component of modern research capabilities.
High performance computing (HPC) is an evolving platform and rapid developments in HPC and the applications of artificial intelligence are critical to drive innovation and economic growth for New Zealand Inc.
A report into the future of eResearch in New Zealand identified opportunities for sector improvement that included: being more responsive to changing technology; improving leadership and governance through strengthening institutional arrangements; increasing the sector’s ability to attract and retain talent, and creating critical mass by consolidating the eResearch ecosystem.
With the integration of New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), REANNZ has become the enabler for realising these opportunities; supporting growth by raising capability, expanding global collaboration and increasing impact.
This work is in response to the Minister’s desire to see a more dynamic science, innovation and technology system than can respond to priorities and keep pace with technological advances.
In its expanded form, REANNZ will:
- better support institutions to grow the sophistication and uptake of digital research;
- ensure equitable access to specialist capabilities;
- improve the quality of the sector’s skills pipeline, training and capability development, and
- achieve greater gains through efficiencies of scale and enhanced co-ordination, collaboration and partnership.
REANNZ will work alongside the sector to develop a strategy that ensures the business is set up to deliver the benefits the sector needs and capture the opportunities that are before us. This strategy will ensure REANNZ is an enabler of its members and partners, and an enabler of growth.
Last updated: 05 August 2025
