Apply for Cooperative Research Centres Projects Grants Program (Australia)

The CRC Program supports industry-led collaborations between industry, researchers and the community. It’s a proven way to link researchers with industry. The focus is on research and development that will have commercial uses.

Aims

• The program aims to:
  • improve the competitiveness, productivity and sustainability of Australian industries, especially where Australia is competitive and in government priority areas
  • use high quality research to solve industry-identified problems
  • encourage and help SMEs to take part in collaborative research.

Funding Information

• Matched funding of between $100,000 and $3 million. Grants are for up to 3 years.

Eligible Costs

• You can use the funding to cover costs directly related to your project including:
  • new research
  • proof of concept activities
  • pre-commercialisation of research outcomes
  • industry-focused education and training activities
  • conferences, workshops, symposia related to the joint research
  • information sharing and communications related to the research.
• This is not a complete list and other costs may also be eligible.

Eligible Projects

• Projects must:
  • develop a product, service or process that will solve problems for industry and deliver real outcomes
  • benefit small to medium enterprises (SMEs)
  • include education and training activities.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible as a lead applicant you must:
  • be an SME
  • have an Australian business number (ABN)
  • be incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation.
• Your trading activities must be either:
  • enough to be called a trading corporation
  • a major, not minor, part of your overall activity.
• Project partners must include:
  • 2 Australian industry organisations
  • 1 Australian research organisation.

Ineligibility Criteria

• You’re not eligible to apply as the lead applicant if you’re:
  • not an SME
  • an individual, sole trader, partnership, unincorporated association or trust
  • a research organisation or an entity whose primary purpose is to undertake research
  • a Commonwealth, state, territory or local government agency or body (including government business enterprises)
  • an entity where most of your funding is from government sources, for example grant programs
  • an administrative or support service to a CRC-P.

For more information, visit Australian Government.