Funding for international collaboration
Global Innovation Linkages Program – Round 3Last Updated: 19 January 2023
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.
Impact of COVID-19
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.
How do we assess your application?
What are the assessment criteria?
What happens next?
Need help?
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Monday – Friday, 8am – 8pm across Australia
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.