Early Career Industry Fellowships for funding commencing in 2025

Overview

The Early Career Industry Fellowships scheme creates a pathway to support academic researchers in establishing careers in industry, and industry-based researchers to work in university settings, with the aim of increased two-way mobility and skill-building in research collaboration, translation and commercialisation. The Early Career Industry Fellowships scheme objectives are to: increase the pipeline of researchers in Australia with capabilities in industry-focused and/or industry-based research collaboration, translation and commercialisation;  open up and maintain a diversity of two-way career pathways traversing university and industry settings;  increase strategic engagement and alignment between universities and industry;   contribute to the solving of industry-identified challenges and opportunities; and  create commercial, economic, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia through enhanced translation and/or commercialisation, including the development of start-up companies.   The intended outcomes of the Early Career Industry Fellowships scheme are: develop the industry collaboration skills of early career researchers;   support early career researchers to achieve translatable and/or commercialisable outcomes for industry; and deliver actionable outcomes for industry partners and research end-users.