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Summary of Discovery Projects 2011 funding

• Total ARC funding for Discovery Projects in this round is $318,162,472.
• Total number of successful projects is 931.
• 595 projects foreshadowed 1178 instances of international collaboration with researchers in 72 countries. The majority of collaborations will take place with the United States (264 instances).
• The success rate of Early-Career Researcher (five years or less from completion of their PhD) participants is 19.8 per cent.
• Female and male participants have equivalent success rates.
• The overall success rate across the five discipline panels was 22 per cent.
• 193 Fellowships are being awarded, representing an ARC salary and salary-related on-costs support commitment for new fellows of over $16.3 million for the calendar year 2011.

Funding by ARC discipline panel:

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Success rate (%)
Biological Sciences and Biotechnology	83,112,976	23.1
Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics	63,505,991	21.8
Humanities and Creative Arts	36,003,971	23.4
Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences	82,243,561	22.4
Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences	53,295,973	19.8

Projects in the ARC discipline panel Biological Sciences and Biotechnology will receive the highest funding at $83,112,976.

Projects in National Research Priority areas:

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Number of projects
An Environmentally Sustainable Australia	55,333,581	162
Promoting and Maintaining Good Health	71,506,001	213
Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries	134,204,550	367
Safeguarding Australia	30,325,690	100
Total National Research Priority	291,369,822	842

90.44 per cent of successful Discovery Projects proposals are considered by the applicants to lie in the National Research Priority areas.

State/Territory outcomes

	Indicative funds over project life ($)	Success rate (%)
New South Wales	100,047,665	20.61
Victoria	91,530,107	24.20
Queensland	49,745,267	22.54
Australian Capital Territory	35,345,496	28.66
Western Australia	20,019,963	17.54
South Australia	17,422,974	18.97
Tasmania	4,051,000	18.75
Northern Territory	0	0.00

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