Discovery Projects
Visit the following pages for information on recently announced grant outcomes under the Discovery Project scheme:
- Selection Report: Discovery Projects 2023
- Funding announcement kit: Discovery Projects 2023 Announcement
Discovery Projects may be undertaken by individual researchers or research teams to:
- expand knowledge base and research capacity in Australia, and
- economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia.
Discovery Projects are for funding between $30,000 and $500,000 each year for up to 5 consecutive years. Project funding may be used for:
- personnel, for example, research associates or assistants and technicians and stipends for higher degree by research students
- teaching relief
- access to research and infrastructure facilities and technical workshop services
- essential field research
- expert third party services
- equipment and consumables
- publication and dissemination of outputs and outreach
- specialised computer equipment and software
- travel costs essential to the project
- web hosting and development
- workshops, focus groups and conferences, and
- essential support costs for researchers who are carers or who personally require care or assistance.