Funding Opportunity - CRC and CRC-Project Applications - NOW OPEN

The CRC programme is now open!

Information for Applicants is now available from the business.gov.au website.   The CRC Programme will be holding Webinars on the 23 and 24 February 2016 about the CRC and CRC Projects selection rounds – click here to register.

The CRC Association have released a news feature, including notification that potential applicants can book 20-minute meetings with the Department at The Business of Innovation 2016.

Following a review of the Cooperative Research Centre Programme, there have been some changes, notably the addition of CRC Projects, or CRC-Ps for short.  CRC-Ps will open for applications on Monday 1st February, as will the new CRC selection round.  Until Monday, the instructions for submission are not known, and so for now  the Programme Guidelines are attached here.

MRO would like to offer proposal development support to applicants intending to apply.  Applicants interested in this service should contact Luke McAvaney on 59790 orluke.mcavaney@monash.edu.  MRO can also offer compliance and eligibility reviews through the ARC Team.  Please contact Helen Partridge on 59895 or helen.partridge@monash.edu


Key Points:

CRC-Ps

· Short-term, industry-identified and industry-led collaborative research projects with industry focused education and training activities such as internships and secondments between industry and Research Organisations

· CRC-Ps need to be submitted by the Lead Participant which must be an Industry Entity

· CRC-Ps must have at least two Australian Industry Entities (of which at least one SME) and a Research Organisation

· Max $3m per CRC-P

· Up to 3 years in duration

· Must have matching funding (cash & in-kind contributions from participants = CRC funding request)

· Applications for CRC-Ps will close 17 March 2016.  

· Final outcomes expected by June 2016

CRCs

· Medium to long term industry-led collaborative research to solve industry-identified problems, together with an industry-focused education and training program, and strategies which build the R&D  capacity within SMEs and deployment of research outputs and encouragement of take-up by industry

· CRCs must have at least one Australian Industry Entity and one Australian Research Organisation

· There is no specified limit to funding available for a CRC

· Up to 10 years in duration

· Must have matching funding (cash & in-kind contributions from participants = CRC funding request)

· Applications for CRCs will close 31 March 2016

· outcomes of stage one of the assessment process expected by June 2016

· final outcomes for CRCs expected at the end of 2016