$86.9 million to promote industry-university linkages
07 Jul 2015
Media release Some of Australia’s best researchers will work collaboratively with industry partners to deliver important outcomes for the nation, with the announcement today of 252 new research projects awarded a total of $86.9 million.
Minister for Education and Training, the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP, announced the funding which has been awarded through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme.
“This type of collaborative research connecting industry with university researchers is vital to Australia’s prosperity and the jobs of the future.
“Australian universities and research institutes undertake a large amount of excellent research, but Australia does far less well than most similar countries in connecting industry with this research and turning it into practical goods and services improving peoples’ lives.
“Australia’s future competitiveness depends on collaboration across disciplines and sectors, on turning our ideas and research into real goods and services, technologies and life improvements.
“This is why the Government is working with universities, other researchers and industry to boost the commercial returns from research, to increase collaboration between universities and industry, and to improve the application of knowledge,” Mr Pyne said.
“It is why, for example, the Government has set strong science and research priorities that will drive innovation and lead to important commercial outcomes.”
The researchers involved in these 252 new projects will work with a total of 528 Partner Organisations who have pledged a total (cash and in-kind) of $153.2 million. This represents $1.76 from Partner Organisations for every dollar of Government funding.
Projects funded in the 2015 Linkage Projects round include:
- $330,000 to The University of Queensland to develop a new nano-pesticide which will assist in curtailing the current $400 million annual economic loss to the Australian livestock industry caused by ticks and buffalo flies.
- $435,000 to the University of Technology, Sydney, to investigate the creation of robots for underwater structure maintenance.
- $406,000 for Griffith University to lift the productivity of the Australian fruit industry by improving automated strawberry harvesting.
- $295,467 to Victoria University to improve access to electronic health data (EHD) for medical research, while still ensuring patient privacy.
- $106,000 for The University of Melbourne to explore the media’s impact on attitudes to violence against women.
A snapshot of funding by State and University is below. To view the full research funding awards, including all project summaries, please visit the ARC website.
Linkage Projects 2015 funding outcomes—snapshot by State and Organisation
|
Administering Organisation |
Total number of Projects |
Total ARC Funding |
|
Australian Capital Territory |
8 |
$2,998,799 |
|
The Australian National University |
8 |
$2,998,799 |
|
New South Wales |
71 |
$24,685,398 |
|
Australian Catholic University |
2 |
$549,000 |
|
Charles Sturt University |
1 |
$191,394 |
|
Macquarie University |
2 |
$565,378 |
|
Southern Cross University |
3 |
$1,191,900 |
|
The University of New South Wales |
32 |
$10,287,431 |
|
The University of Newcastle |
3 |
$899,929 |
|
The University of Sydney |
16 |
$6,589,240 |
|
University of Technology, Sydney |
7 |
$2,819,387 |
|
University of Western Sydney |
2 |
$525,233 |
|
University of Wollongong |
3 |
$1,066,506 |
|
Northern Territory |
1 |
$353,806 |
|
Charles Darwin University |
1 |
$353,806 |
|
Queensland |
58 |
$19,254,360 |
|
Griffith University |
14 |
$4,478,006 |
|
James Cook University |
2 |
$778,519 |
|
Queensland University of Technology |
16 |
$4,124,054 |
|
The University of Queensland |
22 |
$8,229,987 |
|
University of Southern Queensland |
1 |
$219,959 |
|
University of the Sunshine Coast |
3 |
$1,423,835 |
|
South Australia |
20 |
$7,136,668 |
|
The Flinders University of South Australia |
6 |
$2,357,776 |
|
The University of Adelaide |
9 |
$3,065,561 |
|
University of South Australia |
5 |
$1,713,331 |
|
Tasmania |
5 |
$2,057,620 |
|
University of Tasmania |
5 |
$2,057,620 |
|
Victoria |
68 |
$22,089,936 |
|
Deakin University |
2 |
$511,000 |
|
La Trobe University |
6 |
$1,662,517 |
|
Monash University |
17 |
$4,904,240 |
|
RMIT University |
6 |
$1,806,200 |
|
Swinburne University of Technology |
5 |
$1,518,000 |
|
The University of Melbourne |
30 |
$11,178,512 |
|
Victoria University |
2 |
$509,467 |
|
Western Australia |
21 |
$8,350,568 |
|
Curtin University of Technology |
5 |
$1,634,698 |
|
Murdoch University |
4 |
$1,541,755 |
|
The University of Western Australia |
12 |
$5,174,115 |
|
Total |
252 |
$86,927,155 |