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Summary of Linkage Projects - Round One for funding commencing in January 2011

• Total ARC funding for Linkage Projects in this round is $56,235,992.
• Total number of successful projects is 186.
• Average ARC funding per project in this round is $302,344.
• 12 Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships Industry (APDI) will be funded.
• The overall success rate for female investigators is 46.3 per cent and for male investigators the success rate is 51.5 per cent.
• The total number of Partner Organisations for successful projects is 407.
• Total contribution (cash + in-kind) pledged by Partner Organisations for successful projects totals $117.2 million.
• Total investment (cash + in-kind) by private companies is $43.74 million. Australian company contributions total $34.37 million. International company contributions total $9.37 million.
• Value of Partner Organisation contributions for each dollar provided by the Australian Government is $2.08.

Funding by ARC discipline panel:

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Success rate (%)
Biological Sciences and Biotechnology	13,726,594	44.8
Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics	17,040,520	47.1
Humanities and Creative Arts	5,997,367	44.4
Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences	7,502,200	51.4
Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences	11,969,311	47.5

Projects in the ARC discipline panel Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics will receive the highest funding at $17,040,520.

Projects in National Research Priority areas:

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Number of projects
An Environmentally Sustainable Australia	17,238,929	52
Promoting and Maintaining Good Health	13,873,774	54
Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries	15,851,646	53
Safeguarding Australia	4,964,201	15
Total National Research Priority	51,928,550	174

93.5 per cent of the successful Linkage Projects proposals are considered by the applicants to lie within the National Research Priority areas.

State/Territory outcomes

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Success rate (%)
New South Wales	17,073,857	42.4
Queensland	6,402,833	38.2
Victoria	13,664,405	46.9
Australian Capital Territory	4,913,618	63.6
South Australia	4,839,960	48.6
Western Australia	8,821,119	65.0
Tasmania	260,200	25.0
Northern Territory	260,000	100.0

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