Deadline: 15-Jun-21
The Australian Government invites applications through a targeted competitive process to deliver services under the International Education Support Outcome – Destination Australia Program 2022 (Round 3) from 2021-22 to 2024-25.
The grant program provides grants to Australian tertiary education providers in regional areas to provide scholarships to domestic and international students, promote those scholarships for students, and promote tertiary education in regional Australia. It helps achieve the International Education Support Outcome by facilitating study in regional Australia for international and domestic students.
Objectives
The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:
- support higher education and Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers in regional Australia to provide scholarships to domestic and international students to study in regional Australia
- facilitate domestic and international students completing an Australian qualification at a higher education or VET provider in regional Australia.
Funding Information
- The total funding available for the Destination Australia Program 2022 (Round 3) is approximately $25.32 million (GST exclusive) over 4 years.
- The grant opportunity will provide approximately:
- $6.33 million in funding available during 2021–22
- $6.33 million in funding available during 2022–23
- $6.33 million in funding available during 2023–24
- $6.33 million in funding available during 2024–25
- The minimum grant period is one year, and the maximum grant period is 4 years.
Intended Outcomes
The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are:
- the sustainability and growth of tertiary education providers and communities in regional Australia.
- scholarship students consider and decide to live and work in regional Australia post-study.
- regions share in the social, cultural, and economic benefits of our international education sector.
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible to apply for this grant opportunity if you can demonstrate that you meet all of the following criteria.
- You are a registered Australian tertiary education provider
- If you intend to provide scholarships to international students – you are currently registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS).
- Your campus location at which scholarship students will study is entirely or in part in a regional area.
- Registered Australian tertiary education provider
- You are a registered Australian tertiary education provider if you are one or more of the following:
- a Registered Training Organization (RTO) registered with the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA), or the Western Australian Training Accreditation Council (WA TAC)
- you must have a registration status of Current or Current (Re-registration pending) at the time the grant opportunity opens
- a higher education provider registered with the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA).
- You must have a registration status of Registered or Ongoing pending renewal at the time the grant opportunity opens.
- You must provide your registration ID in your application form.
- Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) registration
- If you intend to apply for a grant for scholarships for international students, you must be registered on CRICOS.
- You must provide your CRICOS Provider Code in the application form.
- Campus location in a regional area
- You have a campus location entirely or in part in an area which is defined by the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure as one of the following:
- inner regional
- outer regional
- remote
- very remote.
- You must specify your campus location in your application form.
- You can apply for up to 20eligible campus locations.
- Consortia
- You may apply as an applicant in your own right or as a consortium.
- If you apply as a consortium, either as the lead organization or as a member, you cannot also apply as an applicant in your own right. That is, you can only apply for this grant opportunity once.
For more information, visit https://www.communitygrants.gov.au/grants/destination-australia-2022-r3