ARC awards almost $65 million under Industrial Transformation Research Program 2023

Funding totalling nearly $65 million has been announced for eight new Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centres and five new ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs, covering themes including battery recycling, digital manufacturing and radiation innovation.

Industry partners and universities would also provide additional funding worth $227 million to the new ARC Training Centres, and over $78 million for the new ARC Research Hubs.

In a statement on Friday, the ARC said that funding under the Industrial Transformation Research Program 2023 (Research Hubs and Training Centres) would support training for up-and-coming research professionals, commercial opportunities and new products, and would open in 2023.

“These new ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres and Research Hubs will allow Australia’s best researchers to engage with critical industry partners to address current and future challenges faced by industrial sectors,” said ARC CEO Judi Zielke.

The eight new ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres are:

• ARC Training Centre for Automated Vehicles in Rural and Remote Regions ($5m): Led by Professor Sebastien Glaser, Queensland University of Technology
• ARC Training Centre for Whole Life Design of Carbon Neutral Infrastructure ($5m): Led by Professor Chun-Qing Li, RMIT University
• ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding for Agricultural Futures ($5m): Led by Professor Lee Hickey, The University of Queensland
• ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity ($5m): Led by Professor Peter Solomon, The Australian National University
• ARC Training Centre in Critical Resources for the Future ($5m): Led by Professor Marco Fiorentini, The University of Western Australia
• ARC Training Centre for Radiation Innovation ($4.99m): Led by Professor Mahananda Dasgupta, The Australian National University
• ARC Training Centre for Battery Recycling ($5m): Led by Professor Shizhang Qiao, The University of Adelaide
• ARC Training Centre for Radiochemical Technologies and Precision Radiopharmaceuticals ($5m): Led by Professor Andrea Robinson, Monash University

The five new ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs are:

• ARC Research Hub in Zero-emission Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality ($5m): Led by Professor Zhi-Gang Chen, Queensland University of Technology
• ARC Research Hub for Engineering Plants to Replace Fossil Carbon ($4.93m): Led by Professor Robert Henry, The University of Queensland
• ARC Research Hub for Smart Process Design and Control ($5m): Led by Professor Aibing Yu, Monash University
• ARC Research Hub for Value-Added Processing of Underutilised Carbon Waste ($4.96m): Led by Professor Lian Zhang, Monash University
• ARC Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing ($5m): Led by Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Swinburne University of Technology

More information about the funding round is available here.

Picture: credit www.rmit.edu.au