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ARC Centres of Excellence

ARC Centres of Excellence are prestigious hubs of expertise through which high-quality researchers maintain and develop Australia's international standing in research areas of national priority.

Through ARC Centres of Excellence, a high level of collaboration occurs between universities and other organisations in Australia and overseas.

Objectives - Centres of Excellence with Funding Commencing in 2005 have been funded to:

undertake highly innovative research at the forefront of developments within areas of national importance, with a scale and a focus leading to outstanding international and national recognition;

enhance the scale and focus of research in designated National Research Priorities.  In 2003, the Government designated the following areas as National Research Priorities for Commonwealth-funded research:

  • Research Priority 1: An Environmentally Sustainable Australia
  • Research Priority 2:Promoting and Maintaining Good Health
  • Research Priority 3: Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries
  • Research Priority 4: Safeguarding Australia;

promote research that will enhance Australia's future economic, social and cultural wellbeing;

link existing Australian research strengths and build new capacity for interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to address the most challenging and significant research problems;

build Australia’s human capacity in a range of research areas by attracting, from within Australia and abroad, researchers of high international standing as well as the most promising research students;

provide high-quality postgraduate and postdoctoral training environments for the next generation of researchers in innovative and internationally competitive research;

offer Australian researchers access to world class infrastructure and equipment, and to key research technologies;

develop relationships and build new networks with major international Centres and research programs that help achieve global competitiveness and recognition for Australian research; and

establish Centres of such repute in the wider community that they will serve as points of interaction among higher education institutions, Governments, industry and the private sector generally.

Applications for funding of ARC Centres of Excellence are invited periodically.

Content Last Modified:

4/12/07


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