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Linkage Projects

Linkage Projects supports research and development projects which are collaborative between higher education researchers and other parts of the national innovation system, which are undertaken to acquire new knowledge, and which involve risk or innovation.

Proposals for funding under Linkage Projects must involve a Partner Organisation from outside the higher education sector. The Partner Organisation must make a significant contribution in cash and/or in kind, to the project that is equal to, or greater than, the ARC funding.

Under the Linkage Projects scheme, the ARC provides opportunities for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers to engage in industry-oriented research training and enables postdoctoral researchers to pursue internationally competitive research opportunities in collaboration with industry.

Linkage Projects awards and Fellowships offered by the ARC are:

  • Australian Postgraduate Awards (Industry), available for postgraduate research students.
  • Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships (Industry), available for researchers with fewer than three years' postdoctoral experience at the closing date for applications.
  • Linkage Industry Fellowships, which enable the temporary transfer of a researcher to a Partner Organisation or another higher education organisation participating on a project, or vice versa.

The objectives of Linkage Projects are to:

  • encourage and develop long-term strategic research alliances between higher education organisations and other organisations, including with industry and other end-users, in order to apply advanced knowledge to problems and/or to provide opportunities to obtain national economic, social or cultural benefits;
  • enhance the scale and focus of research in National Research Priorities;
  • foster opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to pursue internationally competitive research in collaboration with organisations outside the higher education sector, targeting those who have demonstrated a clear commitment to high-quality research;
  • provide outcome-oriented research training to prepare high-calibre postgraduate research students; and
  • produce a national pool of world-class researchers to meet the needs of the broader Australian innovation system.

Proposals for funding under the Linkage Projects scheme are processed twice a year.

Content Last Modified:

17/03/10


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