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to $50,000 per year for three consecutive years

      These figures are based on 2024 funding levels and may be subject to variation (for example, due to annual indexation). Updated levels will be available on the 'Salaries and Stipends' page of the ARC website.

  4.    Eligibility criteria

What are the eligibility requirements for applications?
4.1.                  We will only accept applications from Eligible Organisations as identified in Appendix B. An Eligible Organisation that applies will be the 'Administering Organisation' (henceforth, 'You').
4.2.                  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 grant opportunity closing date for any named participant on an application.
4.3.                  Your application must not include medical research as detailed in the ARC Medical Research Policy (2020 version) on the ARC website.

Who is eligible to be a named participant?
4.4.                  Named participants are those individual researchers who are nominated for the roles identified for each grant opportunity.
4.5.                  Roles that named participants may be nominated for under these guidelines are:
           1. Australian Laureate Fellowship candidates (Part A);
          b.              Future Fellowship candidates (Part B); and
          c.              DECRA candidates (Part C).
4.6.                  All candidates named in an application must:
           1. satisfy the eligibility criteria for the role they are to perform;
           2. take responsibility for the authorship and intellectual content of the application, appropriately citing sources and acknowledging all significant contributions, including from third parties; and
          c.              have met their obligations regarding previously funded projects, including submission of satisfactory final reports to the ARC at the grant opportunity closing date.
4.7.                  ARC Fellows must not undertake an HDR during the project activity period.
4.8.                  A Project cannot start until all named participants meet the eligibility criteria in these grant guidelines.
4.9.                  An application will not be considered where We have decided to exclude grant applications involving a particular named participant for a period of time, whether or not they otherwise meet the eligibility requirements.

What are the limits on the number of applications and projects per named participant?
4.10.              These limits only apply to candidates and are designed to ensure that named participants have the capacity to undertake each project.
4.11.              A named participant can be concurrently funded through the Discovery Program for a maximum of:
           1. two projects as a Chief Investigator (CI); or
          b.              one ARC Fellowship and one project as a CI; or
          c.              one ARC Fellowship or project if the individual is also a Director on an active ARC Centre of Excellence and/or a Special Research Initiative project.
4.12.              Applications for Australian Laureate Fellowships, Future Fellowships, DECRA, ARC Centres of Excellence or