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Funding for international collaboration
Global Innovation Linkages Program – Round 3
The Global Innovation Linkages Program provides funding to help Australian businesses and researchers collaborate with global partners.
What do you get?
Grants from $500,000 to $1 million. The grant amount can cover up to 50% of eligible project expenditure.
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:
- Advanced manufacturing
- Food and agribusiness
- Medical technologies and pharmaceuticals
- Mining equipment, technology and services
- Oil, gas and energy resources
- Cyber security
Find out more about Industry Growth Centres.
When preparing your application, you must consider timeframes and constraints that may impact the delivery, participation in workshops and other activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Projects must be designed to ensure participants’ safety and health.
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)
You must also be one of the following:
- an Australian incorporated entity
- a publicly funded research organisation (defined in section 14 of the grant opportunity guidelines)
- a Cooperative Research Centre
- an Australian State/Territory Government agency or body
Project partners
A project must include at least one of each of the following:
- Australian industry entity
- Australian research entity
- global partner
Applying
The Global Innovation Linkages program - Round 3 is closed to applications.
We’ll first assess your application against the eligibility criteria.
If your application is eligible, it will proceed to 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 assessment criteria and compare it to other eligible applications. They’ll then recommend which projects to fund.
The program delegate will make the final decision.
To be competitive you must score highly against all of the assessment criteria.
- Assessment criterion 1: The extent to which your project improves international linkages with global economies (40 points).
- Assessment criterion 2: Your capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (30 points).
- Assessment criterion 3: The broader national benefits of your project (30 points).
If your application is successful, we’ll send you a written offer. If it’s 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.
We will make payments according to an agreed schedule set out in the grant agreement. Payments are subject to satisfactory progress on the project.
Payments will be made by direct credit into a nominated bank account.
Need help?
Let us answer your question over the phone, email or live chat.
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Open Hours:
Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm across Australia
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Collaboration and IP advice
Applicants must provide details of intellectual property (IP) arrangements in their applications. This includes:
- use of IP in the project
- proposed ownership rights to IP generated by the project and strategies for protecting Australia’s interests.
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Learn more about undertaking international collaboration
Department of industry, Science, Energy and Resource
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How to register IP rights in other countries
Intellectual property
IP Australia has a series of webinars to help you manage your IP overseas.
Grant recipients
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Find out which applicants received funding offers under Round 3 of the program.
Round 3 grant recipients