What are the eligibility requirements for applications?
4.1. You can only submit one application for the same project in any grant opportunity. This includes applications which fundamentally have the same research intent, approach and outcomes, regardless of any variations in the research, the named participants and/or organisations.
Who is eligible to apply for a grant?
4.2. We will only accept applications from the Eligible Organisations in Table 2.
4.3. The Eligible Organisation that submits the application will be the ‘Administering Organisation’ and is referred to as ‘You’. All other Eligible Organisations named on the application will be an ‘Other Eligible Organisation’.
4.4. Table 2: Eligible Organisations.
| Organisation Name | Organisation ABN |
| Australian Catholic University | 15 050 192 660 |
| Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies | 62 020 533 641 |
| Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education | 32 039 179 166 |
| Bond University | 88 010 694 121 |
| Central Queensland University | 39 181 103 288 |
| Charles Darwin University | 54 093 513 649 |
| Charles Sturt University | 83 878 708 551 |
| Curtin University | 99 143 842 569 |
| Deakin University | 56 721 584 203 |
| Edith Cowan University | 54 361 485 361 |
| Federation University Australia | 51 818 692 256 |
| Flinders University | 65 542 596 200 |
| Griffith University | 78 106 094 461 |
| James Cook University | 46 253 211 955 |
| La Trobe University | 64 804 735 113 |
| Macquarie University | 90 952 801 237 |
| Monash University | 12 377 614 012 |
| Murdoch University | 61 616 369 313 |
| Queensland University of Technology | 83 791 724 622 |
| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) | 49 781 030 034 |
| Southern Cross University | 41 995 651 524 |
| Swinburne University of Technology | 13 628 586 699 |
| The Australian National University | 52 234 063 906 |
| The University of Adelaide | 61 249 878 937 |
| The University of Melbourne | 84 002 705 224 |
| The University of New England | 75 792 454 315 |
| The University of New South Wales | 57 195 873 179 |
| The University of Newcastle | 15 736 576 735 |
| The University of Notre Dame Australia | 69 330 643 210 |
| The University of Queensland | 63 942 912 684 |
| The University of Sydney | 15 211 513 464 |
| The University of Western Australia | 37 882 817 280 |
| Torrens University Australia | 99 154 937 005 |
| University of Canberra | 81 633 873 422 |
| University of Divinity | 95 290 912 141 |
| University of South Australia | 37 191 313 308 |
| University of Southern Queensland | 40 234 732 081 |
| University of Tasmania | 30 764 374 782 |
| University of Technology Sydney | 77 257 686 961 |
| University of the Sunshine Coast | 28 441 859 157 |
| University of Wollongong | 61 060 567 686 |
| Victoria University | 83 776 954 731 |
| Western Sydney University | 53 014 069 881 |
4.5. Named participants are those individual researchers who are nominated for the particular roles identified for each grant opportunity.
4.6. Roles that named participants may be nominated for under the Discovery Program are:
Australian Laureate Fellowship candidates (Part A);
b. Future Fellowship candidates (Part B);
c. DECRA candidates (Part C);
d. DAATSIA candidates (Part D);
e. Chief Investigators (CIs) (Parts D and E); and
f. Partner Investigators (PIs) (Parts D and E).
4.7. All CIs, PIs and candidates named in an application must:
satisfy the eligibility criteria for the role they are to perform;
take responsibility for the authorship and intellectual content of the application, appropriately citing sources and acknowledging all significant contributions, including from third parties; and
c. have met their obligations regarding previously funded projects, including submission of satisfactory final reports to the ARC at the grant opportunity closing date.
4.8. CIs and ARC Fellows must not undertake an HDR during the project activity period.
4.9. A Project cannot start until all named participants meet the eligibility criteria in these grant guidelines.
What are the limits on the number of applications and projects per named participant?
4.10. These limits only apply to CIs and candidates.
4.11. The limits are designed to ensure that named participants have the capacity to undertake each project.
4.12. A named participant can be concurrently funded through the Discovery Program for a maximum of:
two projects as a CI; or
b. one ARC Fellowship and one project as a CI; or
c. one ARC Fellowship or project if the individual is also a Director on an active ARC Centre of Excellence and/or a Special Research Initiative project.
4.13. At the grant opportunity closing date for DECRA, Discovery Indigenous and Discovery Projects applications, we will count:
the number of Discovery Program CI roles or ARC Fellowships that the individual will hold on active projects on the grant opportunity’s active project assessment date;
b. whether the named participant will hold an ARC Centres of Excellence and/or Special Research Initiatives Director role on active projects on the grant opportunity’s active project assessment date; and
c. the number of DECRA, Discovery Indigenous and Discovery Projects applications We are currently assessing which include that participant as a CI or candidate.
4.14. Applications for Australian Laureate Fellowships, Future Fellowships, ARC Centres of Excellence or Special Research Initiatives do not need to meet the project limit requirements at the grant opportunity closing date. If an Australian Laureate Fellowships, Future Fellowships, ARC Centres of Excellence or Special Research Initiatives application is successful, named participants must meet the project limits under section 4.12 before the project can start. Project limits can be met by relinquishing existing active project(s), or relinquishing role(s) on existing active projects, or withdrawing application(s) that would exceed the project limits.
4.15. If a role or Project must be relinquished to meet the limits at the grant opportunity closing date for a DECRA, Discovery Indigenous and Discovery Projects application, We must approve the Variation before the grant opportunity closing date. Any relinquishment Variation submitted or approved after the grant opportunity closing date will not be taken into account when counting the number of projects under section 4.13.
4.16. It is Your responsibility to determine if applying for, or holding, a project under these grant guidelines will affect an individual researcher’s eligibility for other ARC grant opportunities as other ARC grant opportunities may have different project limits. We reserve the right to change project and application limits in future grant opportunities.