Leadership and Management Training

Professional Development Program - SOH-C1424

Industry Subject Matter Expertise (SME) content writers for micro-skill courses - BC/4527

These grants are being made available to the Early Childhood Education and Care workforce to assist with educator retention and upskilling. They provide money for ECEC services to: 1-     pay educators to undertake mandatory or highly recommended training during working hours or in their own time OR backfill those educators so that they can undertake mandatory or highly recommended trainings during working hours.    2- Pay educators a wage while they complete their practical component of an ECEC degree (including Diploma, Grad Diploma, Bachelor, Masters) to help student-educators complete their degrees.

This grant supports short-term (up to 3 years), industry-led research collaborations. Projects must: develop a product, service or process that will solve problems for industry and deliver real outcomes benefit small to medium enterprises (SMEs). You can use the funding to cover costs directly related to your project including: new research proof of concept activities pre-commercialisation of research outcomes industry-focused education and training activities conferences, workshops, symposia related to the joint research information sharing and communications related to the research. This is not a complete list and other costs may also be eligible. There is no specific amount of funding allocated to each CRC-P round. The number of CRC Projects we fund in each selection round depends on the applications received and available Program funding. Applicants must at least match the amount of grant funding sought through cash and/or in-kind contributions.

CRC Grants are part of the CRC Program. The CRC Program supports industry, research and the community in 2 ways: CRC Grants – support medium to long term industry-led collaborative research of between 3 and 10 years. CRC Projects (CRC-P) grants – support short term, industry-led collaborative research, for up to 3 years. CRC Grants provide funding for collaborations to solve industry identified problems. CRCs must: be a medium to long-term industry-led collaborative research program aim to solve industry identified problems and improve the competitiveness, productivity and sustainability of Australian industries include an industry-focused education and training program, including a PhD program that builds capability and capacity increase research and development (R&D) capacity in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) encourage industry take up of research There is no specified limit to funding for each CRC. However, the number of CRC Grants we fund in each selection round depends on the applications received and available funding. Applicants must at least match the amount of grant funding sought through cash and/or in-kind contributions.