Wednesday 16 October 2019

ARC - Australian Laureate Fellowships (FL20) Now Open

The Australian Laureate Fellowship (FL20) is now open. The Australian Laureate Fellowships (including Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship) scheme encourages applications from the highest-quality researchers by providing eligible Australian Laureate Fellows with project funding in addition to a salary supplement and salary-related (on-cost) support.

Funder
Australian Research Council (ARC)

Funding Opportunity
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship

Key changes to FL application
Please note the following key changes to the FL application in RMS, relative to last year:

  • Project limits: Chief Investigators (CIs) on ARC Centres of Excellence and Special Research Initiatives will no longer count towards Discovery Program project limits.
  • Assessment criteria weighting: Assessment criteria includes new Benefit criterion of 10%. Relatively, Project Quality and Innovation (PQ&I) and Mentoring/capacity building criteria scores are reduced from 30% (previously) to 25% each.
  • D1 - Project description section (previously C1) has been re-ordered
  • Project costs are increased by $10,000
  • E2 - Justification of non-salary funding requested from the ARC has a new page limit of 5 pages
  • G1 - This section from previous years has been removed, and the information from the former G1 table is included at F6 and F7 (ROPE Section)
  • G2 - revious section 'Statements on Progress' for ARC-funded projects has been removed

Key Dates

  • RNTA due to MRO (due to ARC) - November 13 (Nov 20)
  • ADR Approved Strategic Statements Due to MRO - October 30
  • Initial Deadline for Complete MRO Review - November 20
  • ARC Deadline - December 4
  • Anticipated Rejoinder Period - 12 February- 25 February 2020

If you are considering to apply for these schemes and have not yet contacted the MRO’s Research Development team, please do so as soon as possible via mro.researchdevelopment@monash.edu

Links to further information:


All these are are also available via the MRO intranet, including our Guide to entering Research Outputs into RMS.

Further information about the FL, including sample application forms, can be found at Grant Connect (GO3055)

Please contact us at mro-applications@monash.edu if you have any queries about this funding

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