| 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.
The Linkage Projects scheme 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.
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. These are: Australian
Postgraduate Awards (APA), Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships
(APD), and Linkage Industry Fellowships (LIF).
Applications for funding under the Linkage Projects scheme are
processed twice a year, in May and November.
The College deadline for Round 1 LP10 submissions is Wednesday 29 April
2009.
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