Global Innovation Linkages Program

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Global Innovation Linkages Program

The Global Innovation Linkages Program provides funding to help Australian businesses and researchers collaborate with global partners.

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Application detail:

This grant is currently closed to applications.

What do you get?

A grant of up to 50% of eligible project costs, to a maximum of $1 million.

Who is this for?

An Australian organisation collaborating with another Australian entity and at least 1 global partner.

Overview

The Global Innovation Linkages Program provides funding to help Australian businesses and researchers collaborate with global partners. We support strategically focused, leading-edge research and development.

Your project must be in at least 1 of our 6 priority areas. The priority areas align with the 6 Government-funded Industry Growth Centres set up to support industry. Read more on the relevant Growth Centre website:

Find out more about Industry Growth Centres.

Eligibility

What are the eligibility criteria?

To be eligible, your project must have a lead applicant and project partners.

Lead applicant

To be eligible, lead organisations must:

have an Australian business number (ABN)
be registered for goods and services tax (GST)

You must also be one of the following:

an Australian incorporated entity
a publicly funded research organisation (defined in Appendix A of the grant opportunity guidelines)
a Cooperative Research Centre

Project partners

Project partners must include at least one of each of the following:

Australian industry organisation
Australian research organisation
global partner

Applying

The Global Innovation Linkages program is currently closed to applications.

How do you apply?

Read the grant opportunity guidelines for information on the application process.

We advise you to get in contact with the relevant Growth Centre when developing a proposal.

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How do we assess your application?

We’ll first assess your application against the eligibility criteria.

If your application is eligible, it will proceed to merit assessment by an independent committee. The committee will have experts in industries and technologies that are relevant to the specific application round. The committee will assess your application against the merit criteria and compare it to other eligible applications. They’ll then recommend which projects to fund.

The program delegate will make the final decision.

What are the merit criteria?

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

Merit criterion 1: The extent to which your project improves international linkages with global economies (30 points).
Merit criterion 2: Your capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (20 points).
Merit criterion 3: The impact of grant funding on your project (20 points).
Merit criterion 4: The broader national benefits of your project (30 points).

For more information on the merit criteria please refer to section 7 of the grant opportunity guidelines.

What happens next?

Need help?

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Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm across Australia

Find out which applicants received funding offers under Round 2 of the program.

Round 2 grant recipients

Key documents

Funding for international collaboration

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