Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5959

The Australian Government is establishing Industry Clusters, to provide industry with a stronger, more strategic voice and broader role in ensuring Australia’s VET system continues to deliver on employer and learner needs. 

The Australian Government committed $292.5 million over four years from 2021-22, and $111.4 million in 2025-26 to support new industry engagement arrangements.

The Industry Clusters will be groups of aligned industries with a strategic leadership role to identify, forecast and respond to the current and emerging skills needs and workforce challenges of industry. 

Industry Clusters will be established through a two-stage grant opportunity approach to market. The first stage was an open competitive process seeking proposals to establish and subsequently operate an Industry Cluster. The second stage will involve a closed non-competitive process to enable the newly established clusters to put forward detailed proposals to deliver on their full functions.

Stage 2 of the grant opportunity is a closed non-competitive process.

To be eligible, you must be invited to submit an application. Only successful Stage 1 applicants will be invited to apply for Stage 2. Successful Stage 1 applicants are invited to establish a new entity, the newly established entity is to be the applicant.

As Stage 2 is intended to be a closed non-competitive process, applications will not be scored but will instead be assessed on a 'pass / fail' basis

Applicants invited to apply for Stage 2 will be notified through addenda published periodically on GrantConnect (www.grants.gov.au). These addenda will be updated prior to each invitation being issued.

We cannot consider your application if you do not satisfy the eligibility criteria.

Stage 2 open: 6 months

$402,000,000.00

Successful Stage 1 Applicants will be invited to apply for Stage 2 through periodic notifications published on Grant Connect (www.grants.gov.au) as an addendum.

Applicants eligible to apply will be provided with further lodgement instructions and guidance once addenda are published. 

Stage 1 of the Industry Clusters Grant Opportunity opened on 3 December 2021 and closed on 31 March 2022 and was an open competitive process seeking applications from industry to establish and operate an Industry Cluster. The Stage 1 Grant Opportunity can be viewed on the Grant Connect website (www.grants.gov.au) by searching GO5308.

Questions or inquiries about this grant opportunity must be sent to the Grant Round Manager via industryengagement@dese.gov.au