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managing changes to the Future Fellow's working hours.
         Part C                   Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
     C1.1                This part of the document sets out the specific requirements for the DECRA scheme. This part must be read together with the general Discovery Program requirements detailed in Sections 1-9 of these grant guidelines.

Important dates
     C1.2                The grant commencement date and the active project assessment date for each DECRA grant opportunity will be available on the ARC website.

Description
     C1.3                The DECRA grant opportunity provides focused research support for early career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions.

Objectives
     C1.4                The DECRA scheme objectives are to:
          1. support outstanding early-career researchers with demonstrated capacity for high-quality research and emerging capability for leadership and supervision;
          2. foster collaboration, with national or international researchers;
          3. support excellent and innovative research that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge and represents value for money;
          4. create new or advanced knowledge resulting from the outcomes of the research with economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia; and
          5. advance promising early career researchers and promote enhanced opportunities for diverse career pathways in high-quality and supportive environments.

C2.         Grant amount and grant period
     C2.1                Up to 200 DECRAs may be awarded funding in a grant opportunity.
     C2.2                We provide a salary and project funding for the DECRA grant opportunity as detailed in Table 6. Salary and/or project funding will not be awarded separately.
     C2.3                Table 6: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award funding and grant duration.
Category                  Details

Salary funding level      As specified (including on-costs) on the 'Salaries and Stipends' page of the ARC website.

Salary funding duration   Three consecutive years on a full-time basis.  A DECRA project may be undertaken on a part-time basis not exceeding six consecutive years.

Project funding level     Up to $50,000 per year.

Project funding duration  Three consecutive years.

C3.         Grant eligibility criteria

Applications
     C3.1                Applications must:
          1. include only one Discovery Early Career Researcher Award candidate; and
          2. include one Administering Organisation.
     C3.2                An individual must not be nominated for more than one DECRA in a grant opportunity.

DECRA candidates
     C3.3                A previous recipient of a DECRA is not eligible to apply for another DECRA.
     C3.4                An individual who has been nominated for a DECRA on two previous occasions, over the period in which the candidate is eligible, is not eligible to apply for another DECRA. This includes applications that were withdrawn after the grant opportunity closing date and applications that We deemed ineligible.
     C3.5                To be eligible, the candidate must, as at the grant opportunity closing date:
          1. have an award of PhD date on, or after the grant opportunity eligibility dates listed on the ARC