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National Solar Schools Program

Registration Instructions - read this information before you start!

General Registration for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Before you submit your registration request for National Solar Schools you will need to register on the Department's central grants register. In future, you may use this registration to apply for other departmental grants.

To complete your general registration you will need:

Organisation details

1. School ABN - enter your school's Australian Business Number (ABN). This should be eleven digits only. If you don't know what your school's ABN is you can search the Australian Business Register at www.abr.business.gov.au
2. Validate button - click on the 'Validate ABN' button next to the ABN field - your ABN will be checked against the Australian Business Register. The following fields will be automatically populated with data from the Australian Business Register:
   1. GST status
   2. Legal name
   3. Entity type.

Check that the information drawn from the Australian Business Register is correct before proceeding. If the information is not correct, check that you have entered the ABN correctly. You may need to go to the Australian Business Register website and search on your school name to find the correct ABN.

Do not proceed unless you are sure your ABN information is correct - this is the entity to which we pay the National Solar Schools funding.

If your school has been incorporated please enter:

1. Incorporation number
2. Incorporation date

Contact details

You will need the following information to complete this section:

1. Title
2. First name
3. Last name
4. Position in organisation
5. Business phone number
6. After hours phone number
7. Facsimile
8. Mobile number
9. Postal Address
10. Email address

We need the contact details for the person at your school who will be the main point of contact for National Solar Schools. This must be an employee of the school who has been authorised to submit a registration on the school's behalf. We will not accept registrations submitted by third parties.

Enter the school's phone number and the contact person's mobile phone number. You don't have to enter a mobile number, but if you do it gives us more options if we need to contact you.

IMPORTANT - to avoid delays or possible registration failure, please make sure your email address and phone number are entered correctly. Please also check that your internet security (firewall) is configured to recognise the NSSP mailbox address as a safe contact. If you don't know how to do this, please contact your IT administrator.

Login details

Username and password

You will need to enter your choice of username and password.

Please keep your username and password details safe.

Please note that if you are an authorised school employee registering on behalf of a number of schools, you must enter a unique username for each registration.

You will need your username and password to log-in to complete Step 2 of the National Solar Schools Program registration process. They will enable you to access the documents you need to progress through your National Solar Schools project including downloading your funding agreement.

Confimation email

When you submit your registration you will receive a confirmation email with your username and password.

IMPORTANT: Please ensure you wait before proceeding any further for the system to email your username and password back to you. This is because the system needs a couple of minutes to record your information.

If you proceed before you receive the email, your username and password will not be recognised when you try to log in and you will be unable to proceed with your registration.

The confirmation email will contain a link to the National Solar Schools Registration Request login page. When you log in you will be taken to the Grants Menu from which you will access the registration request for the National Solar Schools Program.

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National Solar Schools Registration Request

School details

The information you will need to complete in this section:

1. School name - enter the full name of your school
2. DEEWR number - this is a number allocated to you by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. If you do not know your DEEWR number, you may call the National Solar Schools Hotline on 1800 703 831.

Location of the school

The information you will need to complete in this section:

1. Street address
2. Suburb/town
3. State/territory
4. Postcode.

Do not enter a post office box or other address here - we need the actual physical location of the school, that is, a street address.

What kind of school are you?

The information you will need to complete in this section:

Sector

1. Government
2. Non-government.

Level of education

1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Combined primary/secondary.

We need some basic information about your school. We need to know what sector your school belongs to, that is, government or non-government.

We also need to know what level of education your school delivers. You will need to choose the category that best describes your school, that is, primary education, secondary education, or a combination of both primary and secondary education. Only schools delivering primary and/or secondary education are eligible for National Solar Schools funding.

Help us with our planning

The information you will need to complete in this section:

1. What do you expect to use your National Solar Schools funds for?
   1. Solar power system
   2. Other renewable energy power system
   3. Solar hot water system
   4. Energy efficiency items
   5. Rainwater tanks
2. When do you expect to commence your project?

The answer to this question should be an indication of your current intentions. You are not required to commit to this answer, but it will help us prepare for your claim.

System requirements

Note: The General Registration form and the National Solar Schools Registration Request form work best with Internet Explorer or Firefox.

• Once you have read or printed these instructions, please proceed to the DEWHA General Registration.
• When you have completed your General Registration, please log in to the Grants Menu

• National Solar Schools Hotline: 1800 703 831.