Linkage Program

The ARC's Linkage funding schemes aim to:

• encourage and extend cooperative approaches to research; and
• improve the use of research outcomes by strengthening links within the innovation system in Australia and internationally.

Linkage promotes national and international research partnerships between researchers and:

• business;
• industry;
• community organisations; and
• other publicly funded research agencies.

Through these partnerships, the ARC encourages the transfer of skills, knowledge and ideas as a basis for securing commercial and other benefits of research.

The Linkage schemes are:

• ARC Centres of Excellence
• Industrial Transformation Research Program
• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
• Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects
• Linkage Projects
• Special Research Initiatives
• Early Career Industry Fellowships
• Mid-Career Industry Fellowships
• Industry Laureate Fellowships