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of two Programs under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP). Information about the Discovery Program is available on the ARC website.
2.2.                  The ARC administers funding of excellent pure basic, strategic basic and applied research in all disciplines under the NCGP, excluding medical research. The ARC does not fund experimental development.

About the Discovery Projects grant opportunity
2.3.                  The Discovery Projects scheme is funded under the Discovery Program.
2.4.                  The Discovery Projects scheme objectives are to:
          1. support excellent pure basic, strategic basic and applied research, and research training, across all disciplines excluding clinical and other medical research, that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge and represents value for money;
          2. expand research capacity in Australia by supporting excellent researchers and teams;
          3. foster national and international research collaboration;
          4. create new knowledge with economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia; and
          5. enhance the scale and focus of research in Australian Government priority areas.
2.5.                  The Discovery Projects scheme has a two-stage application process, commencing with an Expression of Interest (EOI). Shortlisted applicants will be invited to submit a full application.
2.6.                  The grant commencement date and active project assessment dates for each Discovery Projects grant opportunity will be available on the ARC website.

3.    Grant amount and grant period
3.1.                  For each Discovery Projects grant opportunity, applications for the levels and durations of funding listed in Table 1 will be considered.
3.2.                  Table 1: Discovery Projects funding and grant duration.
Category                  Details
Project funding           Between $30,000 and $500,000 per year
Project funding duration  Up to five consecutive years

4.    Eligibility criteria

Who is eligible to apply for a grant?
4.1.                  We will only accept applications from the Eligible Organisations as identified in Appendix B.
4.2.                  The Eligible Organisation that submits the application will be the 'Administering Organisation' (henceforth 'You'). All Other Eligible Organisations named on the application will be an 'Other Eligible Organisation'.

What are the eligibility requirements for applications?
4.3.                  Organisation roles available under the Discovery Projects grant opportunity are:
          1. Administering Organisation;
         b.              Other Eligible Organisation; and
         c.              Other Organisation.
4.4.                  You can only submit one EOI and, if invited, one full 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.
4.5.                  Your application must nominate at least one Chief Investigator (CI).
4.6.                  You must ensure that any additional certification requirements, applied by the ARC as a result of findings of breaches of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2018), are provided at the EOI grant opportunity closing date for any named participant