Building on the success of Pathfinders 2010 in Alice Springs, the Cooperative Research Centres Association of Australia invites you to join us in Brisbane from 17-19 May 2011, for our next annual conference, CRCA 2011.
Information on the impact of CRCs is available through the website of the CRC Association (the CRCA), a non-government organisation that promotes the CRC Program and acts a conduit for information sharing and learning between CRCs.
This Australian Government initiative provides funding to build critical mass in research ventures between end users and researchers which tackle clearly articulated major challenges and provide concrete benefits for the end users. Cooperative Research Centres pursue solutions to these challenges in ways that are innovative, of high impact and are capable of being effectively deployed.
Sixty partners from government, the private sector, Aboriginal communities, non-government bodies, research agencies and universities today announced a major bid to overcome the economic disadvantages faced by a million Australians who live in remote areas of the continent. The proposal for a national Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP) is the most comprehensive approach to the issue of economic isolation yet put forward, the head of the bid Jan Ferguson said. "The proposed research institution has three main goals:
Senator the Hon Kim Carr, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has today announced a major investment in remote Australian research and innovation. Vibrant regional economies, more jobs for Australians in remote areas, better education and more enterprises for Aboriginal people are the goals of a new national research organisation. The Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC-REP) will be a public good research centre with a major focus on delivering solutions to economic disadvantage in remote Australia.
