Centres of Excellence
Western Australia's research base is strong and has a long history of successful operation of technology parks. Complementing this is our cluster of Centres of Excellence in science and innovation. There are over 40 Centres of Excellence, including several Cooperative Research Centres, currently conducting industry focussed research and raising the profile of Western Australia at an international level.
The Centres of Excellence Program
The Department of Industry and Resources is currently providing funding assistance to support over 40 Centres of Excellence in Science and Innovation.
The aim of the program is to encourage, catalyse and leverage opportunities to expand and enhance Western Australia’s (WA) science and innovation capability and performance.
One of the most successful programs of its type in Australia, the research centres supported by the program have been successful in attracting over $300 million in research and infrastructure grants.
Investment from the program supports and facilitates research excellence in existing and proposed scientific endeavour with a significant base in WA.
Centres of Excellence
The following are external links to the Centres of Excellence:
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Care
- Centre for Applied Organic Geochemistry
- Australian International Gravitational Research Centre
- Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics
- Centre for Comparative Genomics
- Centre for Evolutionary Biology
- Centre for Exploration Targeting
- Centre for High Definition Geophysics
- Centre for Management of Arid Environments
- Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis
- Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
- Centre for Organic Waste Management
- Centre for Sustainable Mine Lakes
- Centre of Excellence in e-Medicine
- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management
- Data Linkage Australia
- International Environmental Technology Centre
- John de Laeter Centre for Mass Spectrometry
- Plant Energy Biology
- Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
- WA Centre for Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Microsystems
- WA Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems
- WA Centre of Excellence in Industrial Optimisation
- WA Nanochemistry Research Institute
- WA Petroleum Research Centre
- WA Telecommunications Research Institute
- Centre of Excellence for Plant Metabolomics Research
- Centre of Excellence for Computational Systems Biology
Cooperative Research Centres
The following are external links to the Australian Cooperative Research Centres involving WA researchers and WA investment:
- Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre for Emerging and Infectious Diseases
- Centre for Sustainable Resource Processing
- Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Sheep Industry Innovation
- Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development
- Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-based Management of Dry Land Salinity
- Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
- Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre
- Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions
- Pest Animal Control Cooperative Research Centre
- Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre
- Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre
