The ARC—overview and opportunities (France)

25 AugustPresented By

Mr Justin WithersDirector, Policy and Integrity

The Australian Research Council

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

2014-15 Federal

(Treasury omitted)

Australian Government support for science, research and innovation shown in red

(Treasury omitted)

2014–15 Federal Budget

National Competitive Grants ProgrammeDiscovery Programme Linkage Programme

Area of box represents $$ 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)

Industry R&D Tax Measures, $2,430

(26.44%)

Block Funding (incl. RIBG, JRE, SRO, APA + RTS) , $1,947 (21.19%)

NHMRC, $930 (10.12%)

ARC, $876 (9.5%)

CSIRO, $745 (8.11%)

DSTO, $408 (4.44%)

Business Innovation, $304 (3.30%)

Rural, $303 (3.30%)

ANSTO, $253

CRCs, $150 (1.3%)Energy and the Envi-

ronment, $126 (1.37%)

Geoscience Australia, $125 (1%)

Other Health, $58 (0.63%)Other R&D, $537 (1.95%)

• 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

Linkage Programme objectives• 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 excellent Australian and international 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

Key funding features of Linkage schemes• 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

• 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 inARC 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.

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Projects without international col-laborationsProjects with In-ternational Col-laborations

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

United States of America; 24%

United Kingdom; 15%

Germany; 8%

China; 5%France; 5%Canada; 5%

Japan; 4%

New Zealand; 3%

Netherlands; 3%

Italy; 2% Other; 27%

Number of ARC-funded projects involving collaboration with France, by scheme, 2011–15

Thinking Systems

Special Research Initiative

Industrial Transformation Training Centres

Industrial Transformation Research Hubs

Super Science Fellowships

Federation Fellowships

ARC Centres of Excellence

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Australian Laureate Fellowships

Linkage Projects

ARC Future Fellowships

Discovery Projects

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 Funding allocation year

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Total $ $80,262,745 $84,220,142 $84,115,677 $92,122,694 $94,616,928

Total # of projects 418 423 416 366 316

ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with France

Scheme   Funding allocation year  2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

ARC Centres of Excellence

$ $19,500,000 $19,400,000 $19,600,000 $29,142,870 $28,942,854# 8 8 8 9 9

ARC Future Fellowships

$$12,931,746 $15,946,288 $17,138,135

$14,730,199$11,300,011

# 77 94 117 103 69Australian Laureate Fellowships

$ $4,247,751 $7,453,490 $9,468,909 $10,523,716 $12,324,569# 11 17 19 24 27

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

$ $0 $1,935,974 $2,904,046 $4,206,700

# 0 16 24 35

Discovery Projects$ $30,764,362 $30,033,368 $26,243,102 $22,372,840 $18,755,523# 258 252 213 180 144

Federation Fellowships

$ $3,375,725 $1,787,085 $573,556# 14 8 4

Industrial Transformation Research Hubs

$ $500,000 $1,400,000 $1,800,000 $1,800,000# 1 2 2 2

ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with France, by scheme

Scheme   Funding allocation year  2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Industrial Transformation Training Centres

$ $0 $778,520 $1,802,520 $2,693,148

# 0 1 2 3Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities

$ $4,145,000 $5,102,000 $3,590,000 $3,060,000 $5,580,000

#11 12 9 4 9

Linkage Projects$ $4,149,461 $2,791,511 $2,413,081 $1,379,303 $1,014,123# 32 25 21 14 17

Special Research Initiatives

$ 0 0 $4,000,000 $8,000,000# 0 0 0 1 1

Super Science Fellowships

$ $835,200 $1,206,400 $974,400 $371,200# 6 6 6 3 0

Total$ $80,262,745 $84,220,142 $84,115,677 $92,122,694 $94,616,928# 418 423 416 366 316

ARC funding by allocation year for projects collaborating with France by scheme

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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.

22 Philosophy and Religious Studies

21 History and Archaeology

20 Language, Communication and Culture

19 Studies In Creative Arts and Writing

18 Law and Legal Studies

17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

16 Studies In Human Society

15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

14 Economics

13 Education

12 Built Environment and Design

11 Medical and Health Sciences

10 Technology

09 Engineering

08 Information and Computing Sciences

07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

06 Biological Sciences

05 Environmental Sciences

04 Earth Sciences

03 Chemical Sciences

02 Physical Sciences

01 Mathematical Sciences

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ERA 2012: Two Digit FoR codesNo. of Universities rated at world standard or higher

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National Competitive G

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ERA ratingERA rating

Income and Quality

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Australian Catholic University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aAustralian National University 5 4 4 5 n/aBond University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aCentral Queensland University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aCharles Darwin University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aCharles Sturt University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aCurtin University of Technology 2 n/a 2 2 n/aDeakin University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aEdith Cowan University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aFlinders University 3 n/a n/a n/a n/aGriffith University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aJames Cook University 1 n/a 2 n/a n/aLa Trobe University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aMacquarie University 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aMCD University of Divinity n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aMonash University 5 n/a 4 5 n/aMurdoch University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aQueensland University of Technology 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aRMIT University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Adelaide 4 n/a 4 n/a n/aUniversity of Ballarat 2 2 n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Canberra 1 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Melbourne 5 5 4 5 n/aUniversity of New England 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of New South Wales 4 4 4 5 n/aUniversity of Newcastle 1 n/a n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Notre Dame Australia n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Queensland 4 5 4 4 n/aUniversity of South Australia 3 n/a 3 n/a n/aUniversity of Southern Queensland 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Sydney 4 3 4 4 n/aUniversity of Tasmania (inc. Australian Maritime College) 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Technology, Sydney 5 n/a 5 5 n/aUniversity of the Sunshine Coast n/a n/a n/a n/a n/aUniversity of Western Australia 4 n/a 4 n/a n/aUniversity of Western Sydney 2 1 2 n/a n/aUniversity of Wollongong 2 n/a 3 n/a n/aVictoria University 2 n/a 2 n/a n/aTotal UoEs evaluated 33 7 30 8 0

ERA National Report—example data

FoR code 14ECONOMICS

www.arc.gov.au > ERA

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