Fact Sheet – ARC Centres of Excellence (PDF 254KB) For information on recently announced grant outcomes under the ARC Centres of Excellence scheme please visit the following pages: Selection Report: ARC Centres of Excellence for 2023 Funding announcement kit: ARC Centres of Excellence 2023 Announcement ARC Centres of Excellence are focal points of expertise through which high-quality researchers maintain and develop Australia’s international standing in research areas of national priority. Through the ARC Centres of Excellence, significant collaborations occur between universities, publicly funded research organisations, other research bodies, governments, and businesses in Australia and overseas, all to support outstanding research. Objectives The objectives for the ARC Centres of Excellence are to: undertake innovative and potentially transformational research link existing Australian research strengths to address the most challenging and significant research problems develop relationships and build new networks with major national and international centres and research programs build Australia’s human capacity in a range of research areas provide high-quality postgraduate and postdoctoral training environments offer Australian researchers opportunities to work on large-scale problems establish Centres that have an impact on the wider community through interaction with higher education institutions, governments, industry and the private and non-profit sectors. Applications for funding of ARC Centres of Excellence are invited periodically. Grants are made to organisations, not individual researchers or research teams. Applicants should familiarise themselves with the relevant Grant Guidelines and Grant Agreements. About the program The ARC Centres of Excellence Program (CE) supports high quality groups of researchers working in areas of national and international importance for Australia. Centres of Excellence partner with strategic industry and research organisations from Australia and around the World. University Research Offices manage applications for any ARC scheme. Interested researchers should contact the relevant Research Office who will assist in preparing and submitting an application through the ARC’s Research Management System. ARC Centres of Excellence Funded in 2023 ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures ARC Centre of Excellence for The Elimination of Violence Against Women ARC Centre of Excellence for The Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems ARC Centre of Excellence for The Weather of the 21st Century ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology Contact For queries about the ARC Centres of Excellence Program, please email the team at arc-ncgp@arc.gov.au.