Global Innovation Linkages Program – Round 3
Funding for international collaboration
Last Updated: 05 February 2021
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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
You should read the grant opportunity guidelines and sample grant agreement before you apply.
To apply, you must submit your application through the online portal. You’ll need to set up an account when you first log into the portal. The portal allows you to apply for and manage a grant or service in a secure online environment.
Apply now for Global Innovation Linkages Program Round 3
Before you apply, make sure you:
- read the guidelines.
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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.
