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enhance the scale and focus of research in Australian Government priority areas and create economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia; and
         d.              support national and international research collaboration.
2.7.                  The grant commencement date and active project assessment date for each Discovery Indigenous grant opportunity will be available on the ARC website.

3.    Grant amount and grant period
3.1.                  For each Discovery Indigenous grant opportunity, applications for project funding, including DAATSIA salary and salary related (on cost) support, will be considered for the levels and durations of funding listed in Table 1. You may request project funding without a DAATSIA, but You may not request funding for a DAATSIA without project funding.
3.2.                  Table 1: Discovery Indigenous funding and grant duration.
Category                  Details

Project funding           Between $30,000 and $500,000 per year, including:

                                       Minimum $30,000 per year

                                       Any DAATSIA salary requested

Project funding duration  Up to five consecutive years

DAATSIA salary            Requested and/or awarded at one of five salary levels as specified on the 'Salaries and Stipends' page of the ARC website. The DAATSIA salary is counted towards the $500,000 maximum level of funding per year

DAATSIA salary duration   Up to five consecutive years on a full-time basis. A DAATSIA may be undertaken on a part-time basis not exceeding eight consecutive years

3.3.                  DAATSIA salary funding may be requested at one of five salary levels, including 30% salary-related on-costs. The salary level must be either equivalent to or higher than the salary level of the CI as at the grant opportunity closing date.
3.4.                  Salary figures are subject to variation (for example, due to annual indexation). Updated levels are available on the 'Salaries and Stipends' page of the ARC website.

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 Indigenous grant opportunity are:
          1. Administering Organisation;
          2. Other Eligible Organisation; and
         c.              Other Organisation.
4.4.                  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.
4.5.                  Your application must:
          1. nominate at least one Chief Investigator (CI) or DAATSIA candidate. The first named CI on the application will be the Project Leader. The Project Leader or the DAATSIA candidate must be an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander researcher.