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Summary of Discovery Projects 2012 Funding

• Total ARC funding for Discovery Projects in this round is $236,837,254.
• Total number of successful projects is 778.
• 480 projects foreshadowed 933 instances of international collaboration with researchers in 68 overseas locations. The majority of collaborations will take place with the United States (251 instances).
• The overall success rate across the five discipline panels was 21.95 per cent.

Funding by ARC discipline panel:

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Success rate (%)
Biological Sciences and Biotechnology	57,386,852	21.4
Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics	69,776,852	21.5
Humanities and Creative Arts	25,456,201	22.8
Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences	44,498,823	21.0
Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences	39,718,526	23.2

Projects in the ARC discipline panel Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics will receive the highest funding at $69,776,852.

Projects in National Research Priority areas:

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Number of projects
An Environmentally Sustainable Australia	46,269,307	141
Promoting and Maintaining Good Health	41,907,382	153
Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries	100,168,355	293
Safeguarding Australia	24,269,277	97
Total National Research Priority	24,222,933	94

87.92 per cent of successful Discovery Projects proposals are considered by the applicants to lie in the National Research Priority areas.

State/Territory outcomes

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Success rate (%)
New South Wales	75,065,831	33.42
Victoria	56,276,379	24.42
Queensland	38,293,434	15.94
Australian Capital Territory	32,299,554	11.95
Western Australia	14,286,085	5.78
South Australia	17,875,971	7.20
Tasmania	2,740,000	1.29
Northern Territory	0	0.00

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