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ARC Special Research Centres

Special Research Centres are funded by the ARC on the basis of research excellence and potential to contribute to the economic, social and cultural development of Australia. Subject to satisfactory performance, the Special Research Centres have been funded for nine years. Although the ARC does not fund new Centres under this program, it continues to fund many excellent Centres.

Program Objectives

The objectives of the Special Research Centres program have been to:

• establish concentrations of research workers and resources in Australian higher education institutions;
• encourage the pursuit of excellence in research, as measured at national and international levels;
• establish Centres that will act as a major linkage to international centres and programmes;
• provide high quality research environments for postgraduate research education and postdoctoral training;
• promote research in areas of national importance which will enhance Australia's future economic, social and cultural wellbeing; and
• establish Centres of such repute in the wider community that they will serve as points of interaction among higher education institutions, the Government, industry and the private sector generally.

Special Research Centres - Funding for 2001
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ARC Special Research Centres

• Centre for Multiphase Processes
• Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities
• Tectonics Special Research Centre
• Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
• Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter
• Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
• Centre for Ore Deposit Research
  (The Centre was relinquished following the 2005 Centres of Excellence application round and a new Centre of Excellence commenced.)
• Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics
  (Institute for Molecular Bioscience)
• Centre for Molecular Genetics of Development
• Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research
• Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks
• Centre for Particulate Fluids Processing
• Centre for Particle and Material Interfaces
  (The Ian Wark Research Institute)
• Centre for Green Chemistry
• Centre for Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuropsychology
  (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science)
• Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics 

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