A Research End User (REU) means a business, government or not-for-profit. It can be an individual, group or organisation that will directly use or directly benefit from the output, outcome or results of research created in collaboration with a HDR student enrolled at UWA. 
Examples of REU's include:

• Co-operative Research Centres and their industry partners, businesses, governments, non-government organisations, communities and community organisations in Australia or Overseas. They may also be collectively referred to as industry, or a host or partner organisation.
• Your employer is a REU, and the R&D activities related to your studies is with your employer.
• UWA affiliate organisations where the entity is only connected to UWA through external co-supervisory or co-funding arrangements, or has entered into a written agreement with UWA about research internships undertaken by students at UWA. 

• Any university (or higher education provider).

• UWA's affiliates (when the entity is formally or functionally integrated into UWA's core academic, clinical or research operations), controlled entities or subsidiaries, including Medical Research Institutes or Centres.