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Linkage Projects

The Linkage Projects scheme supports collaborative research and development projects between higher education organisations and other organisations, including within industry, to enable the application of advanced knowledge to problems. Typically, research projects funded under the scheme involve risk.

Proposals for funding under Linkage Projects must involve a collaborating organisation from outside the higher education sector. The collaborating organisation must make a significant contribution (equal to, or greater than, the ARC funding), in cash and/or in kind, to the project.

Under the Linkage Projects scheme, the ARC offers postgraduate awards and fellowships to provide industry-oriented research training and enable postdoctoral researchers to pursue internationally competitive research opportunities in collaboration with industry.

Linkage Projects awards and fellowships offered by the ARC are:

  • Australian Postgraduate Awards (Industry), available for postgraduate research students.
  • Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships (Industry), available for researchers with fewer than three years' postdoctoral experience at the closing date for applications.
  • Linkage Industry Fellowships, which enable the temporary transfer of a researcher to a project partner organisation.

In recommending funding for proposals under Linkage Projects, the ARC may take into consideration the likely benefit of the research to Australian regional and rural communities.

Linkage Projects aims to:

  • encourage and develop long-term strategic research alliances between higher education institutions and industry in order to apply advanced knowledge to problems, or to provide opportunities to obtain national economic or social benefits
  • support collaborative research on issues of benefit to regional and rural communities
  • foster opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to pursue internationally competitive research in collaboration with industry, targeting those who have demonstrated a clear commitment to high quality research
  • provide industry-oriented research training to prepare high-calibre postgraduate research students
  • produce a national pool of world-class researchers to meet the needs of Australian industry.

Applications for funding under the Linkage Projects scheme are processed twice a year.

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