Tag: ARC

ARC grant programs pared back and recast on discovery

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The biggest reforms to Australia’s discovery research grants in decades will slash the number of schemes in half but fund hundreds more projects in a strategic effort to find...

A new model: An Innovation and Industrial Strategy Commission

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
Australia already has many of the institutional ingredients for effective innovation ecosystem development. What it lacks is coordination among these instruments around shared objectives. An Australian Innovation and Industrial...

Early Career Researcher boost in ARC grants overhaul

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
New standalone schemes for ambitious exploratory research ideas and early career researchers will be part of generational changes to publicly funded research grant programs. The schemes were locked in...

$17m Swinburne hub opens to advance Australian manufacturing

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Dozens of researchers and industry partners will work together to inject tools like artificial intelligence and IoT devices into Australian manufacturing operations through a new government-backed hub at Swinburne...

Risk vs reward: ARC plans to get behind ‘bold thinking’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Australian Research Council will lift its risk appetite for innovative but unproven ideas that could lead to future research breakthroughs under a proposed overhaul of non-medical research grants....

Gig Guide: ARC finds permanent CEO after year-long search

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Renowned biochemist and Australian National University pro vice-chancellor Professor Ute Roessner has been named the new chief executive of the Australian Research Council. Ms Roessner, who will begin her...

Research unleashed through $342m Discovery Projects round

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
More than 500 basic and applied research projects have shared in $342 million in federal funding to explore areas like high energy batteries, digital inclusion, more climate resilient crops...