ARC Centres of Excellence commencing in 2023

Overview

The ARC Centres of Excellence are prestigious focal points of expertise through which high quality researchers collaboratively maintain and develop Australia’s international standing in research areas of national priority. The ARC Centres of Excellence grant opportunity facilitates significant collaboration which allows the complementary resources of universities, publicly funded research organisations, other research bodies, governments and businesses to be concentrated to support outstanding research in all fields (except Medical Research). The ARC Centres of Excellence scheme objectives are to: • undertake highly innovative and potentially transformational research that aims to achieve international standing in the fields of research envisaged and leads to a significant advancement of capabilities and knowledge; • link existing Australian research strengths and build critical mass with new capacity for interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to address the most challenging and significant research problems; • develop relationships and build new networks with major national and international centres and research programs to help strengthen research, achieve global competitiveness and gain recognition for Australian research; • build Australia’s human capacity in a range of research areas by attracting and retaining, from within Australia and abroad, researchers of high international standing as well as the most promising research students; • provide high-quality postgraduate and postdoctoral training environments for the next generation of researchers; • offer Australian researchers opportunities to work on large-scale problems over longer periods of time; and • establish Centres that have an impact on the wider community through interaction with, and beneficial outcomes for, higher education institutions, governments, industry and the private and non-profit sectors.