Instructions and Frequently Asked Questions
Instructions and FAQs
Information on this page provides practical assistance to applicants for completing, as fully and accurately as possible, the Application Form and associated documentation for all the NCGP schemes. This information is underpinned by corresponding Funding Rules/Grant Guidelines that contain further details about the relevant scheme and should be read in conjunction with the Instructions to Applicants before a funding proposal is prepared.
- Australian Laureate Fellowships
- Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- Discovery Projects
- Discovery Indigenous
- Future Fellowships
- ARC Centres of Excellence
- Industrial Transformation Research Hubs
- Industrial Transformation Training Centres
- Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
- Linkage Projects
- Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects
- Supporting Responses to Commonwealth Science Council Priorities
- Special Research Initiatives
Discovery Program
Australian Laureate Fellowships
For funding commencing in 2018
- Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (1MB)
- *Updated Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (49KB) – Word Format (48KB) – Revised 22 March 2018
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (119KB) – Word Format (50KB) – Revised 23 January 2018
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
For funding commencing in 2019
- Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (807KB)
- *Updated Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (49KB) – Word Format (48KB) – Revised 22 March 2018
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (119KB) – Word Format (50KB) – Revised 23 January 2018
Discovery Projects
For funding commencing in 2019
- Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (1MB) – 13 November 2017
- *Updated Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (49KB) – Word Format (48KB) – Revised 22 March 2018
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (119KB) – Word Format (50KB) – Revised 23 January 2018
Discovery Indigenous
For funding commencing in 2019
- Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (1MB) – 20 November 2017
- *Updated Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (49KB) – Word Format (48KB) – Revised 22 March 2018
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (119KB) – Word Format (50KB) – Revised 23 January 2018
Future Fellowships
For funding commencing in 2018
- Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (1MB) – 2 November 2017
- *Updated Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (49KB) – Word Format (48KB) – Revised 22 March 2018
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (119KB) – Word Format (50KB) – Revised 23 January 2018
Linkage Program
ARC Centres of Excellence
For funding commencing in 2017
Full Proposal
- Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (2MB) Revised 15 October 2015
Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (468KB) – Word Format (68KB) Revised 3 December 2015
Expression of Interest
- Instructions – PDF Format (620KB) – Word Format (547KB) Revised 26 June 2015
Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (183KB) – Word Format (65KB) Revised 26 June 2015
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs
For funding commencing in 2018
- *New Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format – (818KB)
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (400KB) – Word Format (48KB)
Industrial Transformation Training Centres
For funding commencing in 2018
- *New Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format – (902KB)
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (400KB) – Word Format (48KB)
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
For funding commencing in 2019
- *New Instructions – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format – (2MB)
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (400KB) – Word Format (48KB)
Linkage Projects
For funding applied for in 2018
- *New Instructions – PDF Format (2MB) – Word Format – (1MB) - updated 4 January 2018
- Cross-scheme Eligibility Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (400KB) – Word Format (48KB)
Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects
For funding commencing in 2017
- Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects Instructions to Applicants – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (684KB)
Supporting Responses to Commonwealth Science Council Priorities
Supporting Responses to Commonwealth Science Council Priorities Instructions to Applicants 2017
- *Revised Instructions to Applicants – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (649KB)
- Frequently Asked Questions – PDF Format (341KB) – Word Format (27KB)
Special Research Initiatives
Special Research Initiative for PFAS (Per- And Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances) Remediation Research Program
- Instructions to Applicants for funding commencing 2018 – PDF Format (1MB) – Word Format (900KB)