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Discovery Future Fellowships

The Australian Government announced the creation of a new scheme, Future Fellowships, to promote research in areas of critical national importance by giving world class researchers incentives to conduct their research in Australia. The aim of Future Fellowships is to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers.

At present many highly qualified mid-career researchers choose to work overseas to further their careers due to lack of opportunities in Australia. The Future Fellowships scheme addresses this problem and will significantly boost Australia’s research and innovation capacity in areas of national importance.

Over a five-year period (2009 -2013), Future Fellowships will offer four-year Fellowships of up to $140,000 a year to 1,000 Australian and international top researchers in the middle of their career. In addition, each researcher’s administering organisation will receive funding of up to $50,000 per year to support related infrastructure, equipment, travel and relocation costs.

Future Fellowships will encourage proposals from researchers working in areas of national priority. Preference will be given to those researchers who can demonstrate a capacity to build collaboration across industry, research institutions or with other disciplines.

Although international experience is important for Australian researchers, it is also important they have the opportunity to return home to continue their work. Future Fellowships will aim to encourage outstanding Australian researchers currently based overseas to return to Australia.

Consultation process

ARC Future Fellowships Consultation Paper
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Proforma for response to Consultation Paper
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The Consultation Paper outlines the proposed administrative arrangements for the Future Fellowships scheme. The ARC appreciates the valuable role stakeholder feedback plays in developing funding rules and effectively implementing a new scheme. We are seeking comments on the proposed administrative arrangements for the new Future Fellowships scheme and would particularly appreciate feedback on the specific issues outlined at the end of the Consultation Paper.

The ARC may make submissions publicly available except for confidential material provided as part of the submission. Ownership of all intellectual property rights in a submission vests in the submitter. However, in making a submission the author grants to the Commonwealth a permanent, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, adapt and reproduce information contained in the submission for any legitimate Commonwealth purpose.

If you would like your submission or part of it to be confidential please clearly mark any material that is to be treated as confidential or indicate that you do not wish the submission to be made public. Personal information relating to submitters or individuals will be treated as confidential.

The ARC Future Fellowship Consultation process is now closed.  The deadline for submitting a response to the Future Fellowships Consultation paper was cob Friday 27 June 2008.

Email: ARC-FutureFellowships[@]arc.gov.au

If you have any questions about the Future Fellowships scheme, please contact:

 

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