Funding for international collaboration

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.

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.