Australian Research Council (ARC) · AU · ARC

Discovery Projects (DP27)

ARC National Competitive Grants Program scheme round. 2025–26 round · application submissions 2 March to 22 April 2026 · assessment 23 April to 28 August 2026 · indicative announcement 14 January to 28 January 2027. Dates are indicative and set by the ARC.

Deadline 2026-04-22

Official page ↗ Guidelines

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Applicant type

University, Research Institute

Host country

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Domestic restriction

Domestic entities only

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

Applications are submitted by an ARC-eligible organisation (Australian universities and research institutes) on behalf of the researcher. See the scheme's Funding Rules / Grant Guidelines for applicant and organisation eligibility.

Deadline

2026-04-22

Application form effort

2 form file(s) downloaded; 4 explicit questions; 19 writing prompts; 78 fields/sections; heavy — expect a full proposal pack

ARC Discovery Projects Grant Opportunity Guidelines (2026 edition) (33 pages)
ARC Discovery Program Grant Opportunity Guidelines (2026 edition) (33 pages)

Sample questions

Who is eligible to apply for a grant?
What are the eligibility requirements for applications?
Who is eligible to be an Other Organisation?
Who is eligible to be a named participant?

Application form preview sample questions, page & word limits from the application form Back to browse

Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated item	Value in this record	Source
Funding agency	Australian Research Council (ARC)	www.arc.gov.au ↗
Country / funding source	AU · ARC	same page as above — www.arc.gov.au ↗
Deadline	2026-04-22 — read from the official page	same page as above — www.arc.gov.au ↗
Funding amount	Not yet gathered	same page as above — www.arc.gov.au ↗
Eligibility	4 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above	same page as above — www.arc.gov.au ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Official opportunity page ↗
Guidelines — https://www.arc.gov.au/manage-your-grant/funding-rulesgrant-guidelines ↗
Application form: ARC Discovery Projects Grant Opportunity Guidelines (2026 edition) — download ↗ (33 pp)
Application form: ARC Discovery Program Grant Opportunity Guidelines (2026 edition) — download ↗ (33 pp)

Not captured / obstacles

Official page text has not been archived for this record yet — treat field values as provisional.
No archived page text — the funding amount is “not yet gathered”, not necessarily unpublished.

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.