Global Innovation Linkages Program
Funding for international collaboration
Last Updated: 21 August 2020
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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.
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:
- 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.
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.
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