Deadline: 28 March 2019
The Australian Government is seeking applications for the seventh round of its Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants to provide industry-led collaborations with short term (up to three years) matched funding of up to $3 million to develop important new technologies, products and services.
CRC-P grants support short term industry-led collaborations to develop important new technologies, products and services that deliver tangible outcomes.
Aims
To support the overall aims of the CRC Program, CRC-Ps must:
- be a short term, industry-identified and industry-led collaborative research project to develop a product, service or process that will solve problems for industry and deliver tangible outcomes
- benefit SMEs and increase their capacity to grow and adapt in changing markets
- include education and training activities.
Funding Information
- The minimum grant amount is $100,000.
- The maximum grant amount is $3 million.
- The grant amount will be up to 50 per cent of eligible grant project value.
- The maximum grant period is 3 years.
Funding Criteria
- Applicants can use funding to support costs directly related to the project, including for:
- new research
- proof of concept activities
- pre-commercialisation of research outcomes
- industry-focused education and training activities, such as internships and secondments between industry entities and research organisations.
- conferences, workshops, symposia related to the joint research
- related information sharing and communication initiatives related to the joint research.
- Other costs may also be eligible for grant funding.
- Applicants cannot use funding for the same activities or project previously or currently financed through any other funding scheme.
Eligibility Criteria
- Collaborations from all industry sectors, research disciplines and community sectors can apply.
- To be eligible as lead applicant applicants must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN) and
- be an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation, where applicants trading activities
- form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation or
- are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation and
- be an industry entity where the majority of applicants revenue is not derived from government sources and they are capable of commercialising research.
- Each CRC-P must include and maintain amongst its project partners at least:
- two Australian industry entities including at least one SME and
- one Australian research organisation.
How to Apply
Interested Applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit https://www.business.gov.au/assistance/cooperative-research-centres-programme/cooperative-research-centres-projects-crc-ps