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The ARC—overview and opportunities (France)
25 AugustPresented By
Mr Justin WithersDirector, Policy and Integrity
The Australian Research Council
Australian Government support for science, research and innovation shown in red
(Treasury omitted)
2014–15 Federal Budget
National Competitive Grants ProgrammeDiscovery Programme Linkage Programme
Area of box represents $$ awarded over the period 2009–2014. N.B. - Centres of Excellence, SRIs, not awarded in every year. - ITRP and DECRA only funding since 2012
Commonwealth Investment in R&D 2014–15 ($m)
Industry R&D Tax Measures, $2,430
(26.44%)
Block Funding (incl. RIBG, JRE, SRO, APA + RTS) , $1,947 (21.19%)
NHMRC, $930 (10.12%)
ARC, $876 (9.5%)
CSIRO, $745 (8.11%)
DSTO, $408 (4.44%)
Business Innovation, $304 (3.30%)
Rural, $303 (3.30%)
ANSTO, $253
CRCs, $150 (1.3%)Energy and the Envi-
ronment, $126 (1.37%)
Geoscience Australia, $125 (1%)
Other Health, $58 (0.63%)Other R&D, $537 (1.95%)
• Fund excellent, internationally competitive research by individuals and teams that will produce high quality outcomes
• Build Australia’s research capacity through supporting and facilitating research training and career opportunities for excellent Australian and international researchers
• Support research in priority areas that will deliver national benefits
• Enhance research capacity and outcomes through support for international collaboration
Discovery Programme objectives
• Discovery Projects and Discovery Indigenous primarily award project costs (travel, equipment, staff, etc.)
• Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) primarily awards a salary for the awardee, with a small allocation of project costs
• Laureate Fellowships awards a salary top-up plus funding for a team of postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers
• Each scheme has different selection criteria, rules and funding limits, as each serves a different purpose
Key funding features of Discovery schemes
Linkage Programme objectives• Support excellent collaborative research initiatives
involving partnerships between higher education organisations and with other sectors in Australia and internationally
• Foster research training and career opportunities that enable excellent Australian and international researchers and research students to gain experience working in industry settings
• Support collaborative research in priority areas that will deliver national benefits
• Enhance capacity to deliver national benefits by investing in large-scale collaborative research programmes
Key funding features of Linkage schemes• Linkage Projects primarily award project costs
(accessing infrastructure, equipment, travel, hiring personnel etc.)
• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme provides funding for large-scale cooperative initiatives
• ARC Centres of Excellence support large teams to undertake focused and sustained investigations into, and find solutions to, challenging and important problems
• Other programmes: Industrial Transformation Research Programme and Special Research Initiatives
• All ARC funding schemes are open to international applicants applying through eligible Australian organisations
• Support for international collaboration incorporated within ARC’s funding schemes
• Partner Investigators (PIs) can be based overseas
• Project funding for travel, including for overseas PIs, to support international collaboration
Information on International Collaboration inARC schemes: www.arc.gov.au > International
Support for international collaboration
International Collaboration on ARC-funded Projects, 2009–2014
*Outcomes for 2014 do not include funding for Future Fellowships, Australian Laureate Fellowships, Linkage Projects.
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 20140
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Projects without international col-laborationsProjects with In-ternational Col-laborations
Percentage of international collaboration with countries on ARC grants 2011–2015
United States of America; 24%
United Kingdom; 15%
Germany; 8%
China; 5%France; 5%Canada; 5%
Japan; 4%
New Zealand; 3%
Netherlands; 3%
Italy; 2% Other; 27%
Number of ARC-funded projects involving collaboration with France, by scheme, 2011–15
Thinking Systems
Special Research Initiative
Industrial Transformation Training Centres
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs
Super Science Fellowships
Federation Fellowships
ARC Centres of Excellence
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Australian Laureate Fellowships
Linkage Projects
ARC Future Fellowships
Discovery Projects
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
Funding allocation year
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Total $ $80,262,745 $84,220,142 $84,115,677 $92,122,694 $94,616,928
Total # of projects 418 423 416 366 316
ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with France
Scheme Funding allocation year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
ARC Centres of Excellence
$ $19,500,000 $19,400,000 $19,600,000 $29,142,870 $28,942,854# 8 8 8 9 9
ARC Future Fellowships
$$12,931,746 $15,946,288 $17,138,135
$14,730,199$11,300,011
# 77 94 117 103 69Australian Laureate Fellowships
$ $4,247,751 $7,453,490 $9,468,909 $10,523,716 $12,324,569# 11 17 19 24 27
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
$ $0 $1,935,974 $2,904,046 $4,206,700
# 0 16 24 35
Discovery Projects$ $30,764,362 $30,033,368 $26,243,102 $22,372,840 $18,755,523# 258 252 213 180 144
Federation Fellowships
$ $3,375,725 $1,787,085 $573,556# 14 8 4
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs
$ $500,000 $1,400,000 $1,800,000 $1,800,000# 1 2 2 2
ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with France, by scheme
Scheme Funding allocation year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Industrial Transformation Training Centres
$ $0 $778,520 $1,802,520 $2,693,148
# 0 1 2 3Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
$ $4,145,000 $5,102,000 $3,590,000 $3,060,000 $5,580,000
#11 12 9 4 9
Linkage Projects$ $4,149,461 $2,791,511 $2,413,081 $1,379,303 $1,014,123# 32 25 21 14 17
Special Research Initiatives
$ 0 0 $4,000,000 $8,000,000# 0 0 0 1 1
Super Science Fellowships
$ $835,200 $1,206,400 $974,400 $371,200# 6 6 6 3 0
Total$ $80,262,745 $84,220,142 $84,115,677 $92,122,694 $94,616,928# 418 423 416 366 316
ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with France by scheme
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What is ERA?• ERA is a retrospective evaluation of research
performance: 2005–2010 for research outputs, 2008–2010 for other data in the 2012 evaluation.
• The outcomes (ratings) are determined and moderated by committees of distinguished researchers, drawn from Australia and overseas.
• The ERA unit of evaluation (UoE) is the discipline within the institution, not individual researchers or institutional units.
• ERA does not rank institutions or units; each UoE is evaluated on its merits against the rating scale.
22 Philosophy and Religious Studies
21 History and Archaeology
20 Language, Communication and Culture
19 Studies In Creative Arts and Writing
18 Law and Legal Studies
17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
16 Studies In Human Society
15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
14 Economics
13 Education
12 Built Environment and Design
11 Medical and Health Sciences
10 Technology
09 Engineering
08 Information and Computing Sciences
07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
06 Biological Sciences
05 Environmental Sciences
04 Earth Sciences
03 Chemical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
01 Mathematical Sciences
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ERA 2012: Two Digit FoR codesNo. of Universities rated at world standard or higher
14 Economics
Institution
14 Econom
ics
1401 Econom
ic Theory
1402 Applied Economics
1403 Econom
etrics
1499 Other
Economics
Australian Catholic University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aAustralian National University 5 4 4 5 n/aBond University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aCentral Queensland University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aCharles Darwin University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aCharles Sturt University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aCurtin University of Technology 2 n/a 2 2 n/aDeakin University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aEdith Cowan University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aFlinders University 3 n/a n/a n/a n/aGriffith University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aJames Cook University 1 n/a 2 n/a n/aLa Trobe University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aMacquarie University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aMCD University of Divinity n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aMonash University 5 n/a 4 5 n/aMurdoch University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aQueensland University of Technology 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aRMIT University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Adelaide 4 n/a 4 n/a n/aUniversity of Ballarat 2 2 n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Canberra 1 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Melbourne 5 5 4 5 n/aUniversity of New England 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of New South Wales 4 4 4 5 n/aUniversity of Newcastle 1 n/a n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Notre Dame Australia n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Queensland 4 5 4 4 n/aUniversity of South Australia 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aUniversity of Southern Queensland 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Sydney 4 3 4 4 n/aUniversity of Tasmania (inc. Australian Maritime College) 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Technology, Sydney 5 n/a 5 5 n/aUniversity of the Sunshine Coast n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Western Australia 4 n/a 4 n/a n/aUniversity of Western Sydney 2 1 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Wollongong 2 n/a 3 n/a n/aVictoria University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aTotal UoEs evaluated 33 7 30 8 0
ERA National Report—example data
FoR code 14ECONOMICS
www.arc.gov.au > ERA