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ARC News

• Media release - Empowering a secure and safer Australia
  (18/04/12)
• Media release – International researchers make Australia home
  (05/04/12)
• Media release - Million dollar grant to help Nobel Laureate to continue mapping southern
  (30/03/12)
• Media release - ARC Fellows Honoured
  (27/03/12)
• Media release - 147 standout researchers to help evaluate our research strengths
  (08/03/12)
• The new Industrial Transformation Research Program has been announced
  (8/12/11)

• The Universal Motion Simulator (UMS) at Deakin University's Centre for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) is now open
  (18/11/11)

Welcome to the Australian Research Council website

The ARC is a statutory authority under the Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (IISRTE) portfolio within the Australian Government. Its mission is to deliver policy and programs that advance Australian research and innovation globally and benefit the community.

In seeking to achieve its mission, the ARC provides advice to the Government on research matters, manages the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP), and administers the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.

Through the NCGP - a significant component of Australia's investment in research and development - 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.

The ERA initiative assesses research quality within Australia's higher education institutions and gives government, industry, business and the wider community assurance of the excellence of research conducted.  It also provides a national stocktake, by research discipline areas, of research strength against international benchmarks.

Empowering a secure and safer Australia

Acting ARC CEO Ms Leanne Harvey has announced a $1 million funding extension for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.

Special Research Initiative in Synchrotron Science

Special Research Initiative in Synchrotron Science for funding commencing in 2012 is now open for proposals.

For more information visit the Special Research Initiative in Synchrotron Science page.

Industrial Transformation Research Program

The new Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Program has been announced.

The Program will support strong partnerships between researchers and industry to help create new and improved products, processes and services, and generate new high-wage, high-skill jobs for Australians.

For more information, visit the Industrial Transformation Research Program web page.