The ARC—overview and opportunities (Japan)

19 October 2015

Presented byMr Justin Withers

Director, Policy and IntegrityThe Australian Research Council

2014–15 Federal Budget(Approx. AU$415 billion)

(Treasury omitted)

2014–15 Federal BudgetAustralian Government support for science, research and innovation

shown in red

Web: arc.gov.au I Email: Communications@arc.gov.au

National Competitive Grants ProgrammeDiscovery Programme Linkage Programme

Area of box represents dollars 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)

• 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

• 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 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

Linkage Programme objectives

• 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

Key funding features of Linkage schemes

• 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 in

– ARC 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.

Percentage of international collaboration with countries on ARC grants 2011–2015

ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with Japan

New and ongoing projects involving collaboration with Japan (number and funding), 2015

ERA 2010 and 2012 National Reports

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.

ERA 2012: Two Digit FoR codes No. of Universities at world standard or higher

National Competitive G

Other Public

Industry

ERA rating

Income and Quality—2010

Industry

Other Public

National Competitive G

ERA rating

Income and Quality—2012

ERA 2012 National Report

FoR code 04EARTH SCIENCES

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