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ARC grant scheme timetable, including open, close and anticipated outcome announcement dates dates for Expressions Of Interest and full applications, plus rejoinder periods and selection meeting dates.

#ARCschedule Aug25

No outcomes expected this month (Industrial Transformation schemes were announced in July).

Other events:
🔹Selection meeting for Discovery Projects

Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Network Messages page is back up again now. Just a normal kind of stuff-up then…

Any Research Office staff, or others with direct info from ARC, understand what’s happening with ARC’s “Network Messages”? The NM site is “not found” since mid-afternoon (AEST).

There's biomed represented in there, which is much closer to "biology" than many other disciplines are to anything represented there. For example, engineering? Basically all of the physical sciences? Maths? It's a bit … strange.

Black text on white background. Screenshot excerpt of ARC webpage announcing make-up of the new ARC Advisory Committee. Screenshot shows the bullet-point list of the Committee members.

The members of the new ARC Advisory Committee have been announced👇 ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

This Committee is required under the new ARC legislation, to "assist the Board to determine priorities, strategies and policies for the ARC."

Yep, weird. And disconnected from yesterday's 3:30pm AEST release of Training Centres. Something's gone wrong with their outcomes releases.

[My bot also failed to pick up yesterday's release properly, citing some sort of problem in how ARC formatted database pages that comprise a "release" on RMS.]

🚨 #IH25 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Industrial Transformation Research Hubs 2025❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

🚨 #IC25 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Industrial Transformation Training Centres 2025❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Thanks!

I'm particularly interested in hearing from those who do not currently use multi-factor authentication on their RMS accounts. One could presume that ARC would target emails at those people first. So if you don't use MFA already, and have/haven't got an email from the ARC, please let me know.

Has anyone got an email from ARC directly about this imminent change to accessing RMS?

They're going to require multi-factor authentication (currently optional), which is OK I guess. But what I'm wondering is whether they've done more than sticking the news on a webpage no-one looks at?

#ARCSenateOrder Jun25:

The ARC made no grant recommendations in June.

See https://www.arc.gov.au/about/our-organisation/reporting/senate-requirements/agency-grants-pratt-motion

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Yes, they are gone as well. Nothing is confirmed yet, of course, but they were slated for termination in the original proposal and nothing in this new “updates” changes that, so expect they’re no more.

To me these changes seem sensible. But there’s no detail, even at the minimal level provided in the initial proposal.

How many ECR fellowships? How does that reduce the budget in other schemes? How does the LIEF-like “sub-scheme” compare to the current LIEF funding levels? etc.

Black text on white background. Screenshot from ARC webpage updating us on changes, in response to community feedback, to their proposed modification to their grants system. This screenshot shows the main changes, listed on that webpage.

The ARC has “announced” an update on the proposed changes to its grant schemes.

Key changes, in response to “nearly 350” submissions” (!) on their proposal, are 👇

More here: www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

You called?

#LaureateFellowships #IL25 announcement cont.:

Outcomes summary:

Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 8 / 48 (16.7%)
Funds: $30.40M / $182.92M (16.6%)

Approved grants requested $30.84M; 98.6% provided.

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🚨 #LaureateFellowships #IL25 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Industry Laureate Fellowships 2025❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/279

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I presume they cannot accept both. The ARC will not redistribute the one not taken up. Each year there’s always fellowships that are turned down for lots of different reasons, and the ARC doesn’t redistribute them.

#IndustryFellowships #IM25 announcement cont.:

Outcomes summary:

Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 25 / 147 (17.0%)
Funds: $28.12M / $161.06M (17.5%)

Approved grants requested $28.20M; 99.7% provided.

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🚨 #IndustryFellowships #IM25 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Mid-Career Industry Fellowships 2025❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/275

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A DMer corrected me on this: In fact, the only recent instance prior to today was LIEF & LP announced last October. LIEF was at 11am, while LP was at 2pm, not 3pm.

I was right about the future but wrong about the past … go figure!

#FutureFellowships #FT25 announcement cont.:

Outcomes summary:

Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 100 / 664 (15.1%)
Funds: $114.61M / $760.60M (15.1%)

Approved grants requested $114.92M; 99.7% provided.

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🚨 #FutureFellowships #FT25 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for ARC Future Fellowships 2025❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/278

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For those waiting on Future Fellowships outcomes, my best is they'll be announced around 3pm AEST.

There's not much recent experience of multiple schemes announced on the same day to go on, but in the only example we have, the 2nd scheme was announced at 3pm AEST.

If you want a notification on your phone when an ARC announcement is made, you can follow my "bot only" account as well: @arc-tracker-bot.bsky.social. As of today, Bluesky has a feature to get a phone notification when someone you follow posts, by using the bell icon on the profile page.

That would, indeed, be useful. I think there is only one precedent in more recent times when they announced two schemes in one day, and in that case the second scheme was announced around 3pm AEST. But who knows. I mean, they know … maybe.

Black text on white background. Screenshot of tweet from the ARC saying the Mid-Career and Laureate Industry Fellowships will be announced on Thursday 10 July.

ARC says they'll announce outcomes for the Mid-Career and Laureate Industry Fellowships tomorrow (Thursday 10 July).

I presume one will be announced at about 11am AEST, while the other will be later in the day, based on today's experience of two schemes being announced.

Yep, so the Early Career Industry Fellowships were announced at 11:02 AEST, but the Future Fellowships haven't been announced yet. I'd expect them either within the next hour or about 3pm AEST, going on very limited experience in the recent past.

#IndustryFellowships #IE25 announcement cont.:

Outcomes summary:

Approved / requested (%)
Apps: 50 / 180 (27.8%)
Funds: $24.74M / $89.58M (27.6%)

Approved grants requested $25.00M; 98.9% provided.

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