Discovery Program (2019 edition)
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3. Grant amount and grant period
3.1. For each grant opportunity, applications for the levels of funding listed in Table 1 will be considered. Further details are provided in the scheme specific parts (Parts A to E) of these grant guidelines.
3.2. Table 1: Discovery Program funding and grant duration.
| Grant Opportunity | Funding for each grant: | | Australian Laureate Fellowships<br>(Part A) | a salary supplement for the Australian Laureate Fellow, for five consecutive years on a full-time basissalary support for two Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRA), for five years eachstipend support for two Postgraduate Researchers (PGR), for four years eachproject costs of up to $300,000 per year for five consecutive years (which may be used to fund additional PDRAs and PGRs)up to an additional $20,000 per year for Kathleen Fitzpatrick or Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellows | | Future Fellowships<br>(Part B) | a salary at one of three levels for the Future Fellow, for four consecutive years on a full-time basis project costs of up to $60,000 per year for four consecutive years | | DECRA<br>(Part C) | a salary for the DECRA recipient, for three consecutive years on a full-time basisproject costs of up to $50,000 per year for three consecutive years | | Discovery Indigenous<br>(Part D) | a salary at one of five levels for the DAATSIA recipient, for up to five consecutive years on a full-time basisproject costs of between $30,000 and $500,000 per year for up to five consecutive years, inclusive of the DAATSIA salary | | Discovery Projects (Part E) | project costs of between $30,000 and $500,000 per year for up to five consecutive years. |