Australian Research Council
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The ARC's mission to advance Australia's research excellence to be globally competitive and deliver benefits to the community.
In seeking to achieve its mission, the ARC supports the highest-quality fundamental and applied research and research training through national competition across all disciplines, with the exception of clinical medicine and dentistry.
In addition, the ARC brokers partnerships between researchers and industry, government, community organisations and the international community.
The outcomes of ARC-funded research deliver cultural, economic, social and environmental benefits to all Australians.
ARC Discovery Grants
The Discovery Projects scheme provides funding for research projects that can be undertaken by individual researchers or research teams.
Discovery Projects (DP) aims to:
* support excellent fundamental research by individuals and teams
* enhance the scale and focus of research in the National Research Priorities
* assist researchers to undertake their research in conditions most conducive to achieving best results
* expand Australia's knowledge base and research capability
* foster the international competitiveness of Australian research
* encourage research training in high-quality research environments.
Participants should familiarise themselves with the Funding Rules and Funding Agreements. Grants from the ARC are made to organisations, not individual researchers or research teams.
http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/dp/dp_default.htm
ARC Linkage Grants
The Linkage Projects (LP) scheme supports collaborative research and development projects between higher education organisations and other organisations, including within industry, to enable the application of advanced knowledge to problems.
Proposals for funding under Linkage Projects must involve a collaborating organisation from outside the higher education sector. The collaborating organisation must make a significant contribution (equal to, or greater than, the ARC funding), in cash and/or in kind, to the project.
Linkage Projects aims to:
* encourage and develop long-term strategic research alliances between higher education institutions and industry in order to apply advanced knowledge to problems, or to provide opportunities to obtain national economic or social benefits
* support collaborative research on issues of benefit to regional and rural communities
* foster opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to pursue internationally competitive research in collaboration with industry, targeting those who have demonstrated a clear commitment to high quality research
* provide industry-oriented research training to prepare high-calibre postgraduate research students
* produce a national pool of world-class researchers to meet the needs of Australian industry.
Applications for funding under the Linkage Projects scheme are processed twice a year.
http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/lp/lp_default.htm
GAMS - Grant Application Management System
All ARC applications are completed both online and in printed format. The online section is entered through the Grant Application Management System (GAMS) system. To access this system, you need a GAMS ID.
The Universities GAMS contact, Belinda Snell, can do this for you.
You need to provide the following information:
* Full Name and Title
* Date of birth
* Position Title
* School
* Telephone and fax numbers
* Email Address.
ALL researchers named on the application need a GAMS ID. If they are external to UNE we can set them up too.
If they are employed by another University, their Research Office needs to set this up.
If they are from another organisation, ie a Partner Organisation/Industry Partner, we can set this up for them. They need to provide the same information as above plus their company/organisations name.
Contact Belinda Snell if you have any questions.
N.B. GAMS will be superseded by the new RMS, Research Management System, in time for LP round 2 for funding in 2009. More information will be distributed once it becomes available.