FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
AFRAN FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
AFRAN plays an active role in facilitating the organisation of events and communication initiatives to support a growing community of members, as well as facilitating bi-national dialogue on research and innovation issues. Many of these initiatives are member-initiated and supported by AFRAN and additional financial resources.
AFRAN ANNUAL CALL FOR INITIATIVES
AFRAN funds initiatives or series of smaller, integrated initiatives (such as network building activities, one-off or series of collaborative research exhibitions or productions, symposia/workshops focussed on community development) designed to federate, build and scale up thematic communities around particular research and innovation areas within the perimeter of AFRAN and/or between France and Australia.
EVENTS
AFRAN also funds small events (such as scientific cafés, forums, public talks, etc) initiated by its members. AFRAN offers up to AUD200 towards catering and/or logistics for these events.
FRENCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
H2020
Australian researchers are eligible but not typically funded by the European Union. The Australian government (NHMRC) provides financial support to its researchers involved in prize-winners H2020 consortiums in medical research. While there is no federal support for other fields, some universities are equipped with support mechanisms (i.e. the University of Melbourne).
ANR
The National Agency for Research is a funding agency financing French research across all its disciplines. Its mission is to stimulate innovation and technology transfer by encouraging interactions and collaborations between public research and industrial partners.
FASIC
The PHC FASIC (French-Australia Science Innovation Collaboration) Grants is a French-Australian Hubert-Curien Partnership for cooperation in science, technology and innovation. Since 2018, it is implemented along three different schemes : FASIC Researchers, FASIC PhD, and FASIC Workshops.
SAAFE
The objective of the SAAFE program is to foster research collaborations between France and Australia in nuclear science and engineering in the field of human health, environment and nuclear fuel cycle. The program will support early career researchers at PhD level to expand research and innovation activities and to initiate sustainable research networks and linkages to support Australia and France research and innovation
AUSTRALIAN FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
ARC DISCOVERY PROGRAM
Providing funding for fundamental research through 5 pathways:
Discovery Projects
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Future Fellowships
Australian Laureate Fellowships
Discovery Indigenous
ARC LINKAGE PROGRAM
Providing funding for research projects with a partnership with business, industry, community organisations or other publicly funded research agencies:
Linkage Projects
Industrial Transformation Research Program
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
ARC Centres of Excellence
Special Research Initiatives
Linkage Learned Academies Special Projects
NHMRC
A number of grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council correspond to various priorities:
Grants to Create New Knowledge
Grants to Accelerate Research Translation
Grants to Build Australia’s Future Capability Work With Partners
Collaborative Grants (NHMRC international activities)
GLOBAL INNOVATION
This opportunity finances partnership research projects initiated by an academic laboratory and an Australian company, and an associate partner (academic or industrial) from one of 17 priority countries. The grant can provide up to $1 million AUD for a project for a maximum of 4 years, with equivalent contributions (in cash or in kind) brought by the consortium. The financed projects must correspond with the themes of the Australian Growth Centers.
GLOBAL CONNECTION FUNDS (ATSE)
This opportunity offers limited financing, type seed-funding (7000 AUD for priming grants and 50 000 AUD for bridging grants). It finances the initiation of partnership research projects associating an Australian academic laboratory and an SME from one of 17 priority countries.
BIOMEDICAL TRANSLATION FUND
The Government has established a partnership with the private sector to support biomedical innovation and to improve the transfer of research results in health in Australia. The Biomedical Translation Fund will help Australian companies to overcome the challenges experienced in the marketing of their ideas.
ENDEAVOUR SCHOLARSHIPS
These scholarships, based on the merit, are very competitive and are open to international applications. They are supplied by the Australian government and finance citizens from around the globe so that they conduct their studies, research, or professional initiatives in Australia and, for Australians, so that they undertake the same abroad.
PACIFIC FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The funding programs detailed in the Funding opportunities/France page will often be available to support research programs in collaboration with institutions on the Islands (including funding from the European Commission, as French territories are considered as a EU member country for most schemes), in addition to which there exist specific programs to work in the Pacific
FONDS PACIFIQUE
The Fund for economic, social and cultural cooperation in the Pacific called "Fonds Pacifique", is the main French instrument of regional cooperation in the Pacific. Financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this program contributes, through cooperation with independent Pacific States, to the regional integration of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and islands Wallis and Futuna.
OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNTIES
Local institutions (see Research actors in Oceania) as well as research for development programs run by the Pacific Community, SPREP and national/regional aid programs (e.g. DFAT, AFD, ADB, World Bank) offer specific funding to work in the Pacific.
Opportunities for research and innovations collaborations might also be available, through cooperation programs in place between New Caledonia and Vanuatu, and through programs put in place by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) or the Institut Francais.
