ARC- Future Fellowships (FT20) Now Open

The ARC Future Fellowships (FT20) is now open. Future Fellowships reflects the Australian Government’s commitment to excellence in research by supporting excellent mid-career researchers to undertake high quality research in areas of national and international benefit.   

Funder
Australian Research Council (ARC) 

Funding Opportunity
Future Fellowship (FT20)

Brief Details
FTs are for eligible researchers 5-15 years post-PhD (i.e. researchers with a PhD award date which falls between 1 March 2005 - 1 March 2015). If you require a Career Interruption, see here.

Key changes to FT application
Please note the following key changes to the FT 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: Investigator/ Capability (Previously “Future Fellowship candidate”) criteria score is increased to 50%. Relatively, Project Quality and Innovation criteria score is reduced to 25%.
• D1 - Project description section (previously C1) has been re-ordered
• Project costs are increased by $10,000
• E3- Justification of non-ARC contributions (Previously section F2) has a new page limit of 2 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- previously “Statements on Progress” and H- “Host Organisation” sections has been removed

Key Dates

• Career Interruption Forms Due to MRO - October 23
• RNTA due to MRO (due to ARC) - October 30 (Nov 6)
• ADR Approved Strategic Statements Due to MRO - November 13
• Initial Deadline for Complete MRO Review - October 30
• ARC Deadline - November 27
• Anticipated Rejoinder Period - 5 March - 19 March 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
Discovery Program grant guidelines
Discovery Program Key changes 2019 V1.1
FT20 ITAs
RNTA form
Template Pack- containing templates for: D1, D2, E2, E3, F6 and F20 sections
Certification form

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 (GO3053)

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