Automotive Engineering Graduate Program

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Automotive Engineering Graduate Program

We're helping develop graduate engineers with skills and experience for the future automotive industry. Find out about grants to support postgraduate research in automotive engineering priority areas.

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What do you get?

Funding of between $200,000 and $1 million, covering up to 100% of eligible costs.

Who is this for?

Universities that provide postgraduate research programs in automotive engineering.

Overview

The Automotive Engineering Graduate Program provides funding to universities for industry-based postgraduate research. Universities may use the funding to give students stipends and research support.

Student projects need to be in specific knowledge priority areas for automotive engineering. You must complete the projects by 30 June 2021.

The program aims to help the automotive industry by providing a source of high-quality graduate engineers. They’ll have the skills and experience to match future industry needs.

Eligibility

What are the eligibility criteria?

To be eligible you must:

be a higher education provider listed in Table A or Table B in the Higher Education Support Act 2003
offer student research programs related to automotive engineering knowledge priorities

Eligible activities must directly relate to the project and can include:

funding postgraduate students in industry-based projects that give experience in knowledge priority areas
use of facilities to do research outside the university
activities that support delivery of your project (like engaging automotive industry partners to support student projects)

Applying

How do you apply?

The Automotive Engineering Graduate Program is currently closed to applications.

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What are the merit criteria?

To be competitive you must score highly against all of the merit criteria.

Merit criterion 1: The extent that your project will increase the pipeline of high quality graduate engineers into Australia’s automotive engineering sector (40 points).
Merit criterion 2: Capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (40 points).
Merit criterion 3: Impact of grant funding on your project (20 points).

What happens next?

If your application is successful, we’ll send you a written offer. If you are unsuccessful, we’ll notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.

Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will include details about:

reporting you’ll need to do
your payment schedule
milestones you need to meet to get paid

To continue to get payments, the project must progress at a reasonable rate. We set aside a minimum of 5% of the total grant funding for the final payment. We’ll pay this after you submit a satisfactory final report.

We’ll pay by direct credit into your nominated bank account.

Need help?

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Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm across Australia

Grant recipients

View a list of successful applicants that we have offered funding to under the Automotive Engineering Graduate Program.

Grant recipients

Key documents

Grants for postgraduate research in automotive engineering

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