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Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO4147
Skilling Australia's Defence Industry Grants Program
GO ID:
GO4147
Agency:
Department of Defence
Close Date & Time:
Primary Category:
201002 - Employment Services
Secondary Category:
361002 - Defence
Publish Date:
4-Sep-2020
Location:
ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS, Administered Territories
Selection Process:
Open Non-competitive
Description:
The Skilling Australia’s Defence Industry Grants Program will provide grants to businesses over three years to help develop defence sector skills and human resources practices and training plans.
The program aims to:
- reduce barriers faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the defence sector when upskilling or retraining staff
- develop skills within SMEs in the defence sector
- support SMEs in the defence sector to establish human resources practices and training plans that will build lifelong learning activities into their business.
Eligibility:
To be eligible you must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- be non-income tax exempt (unless you are a defence industry association training your own staff or facilitating training to businesses you are representing).
and be one of the following entities:
- an entity, incorporated in Australia
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
We can only accept applications from:
- SMEs with less than 200 employees that currently service, or intend to service, the defence industry sector and meet one of the following requirements:
- have a current Defence contract
- be currently tendering or preparing to tender for a Defence contract
- be a current subcontractor to a Defence prime or contracted through the Prime's supply chain to deliver on Defence projects.
- Defence industry associations for training their own staff or for facilitating training to businesses they are representing.
You are not eligible to apply if you are:
- income tax exempt (unless you are a defence industry association training your own staff or facilitating training to businesses you are representing)
- an individual
- a partnership
- a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
- a Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government body (including government business enterprises)
- a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.
Total Amount Available (AUD):
$39,000,000.00
Estimated Grant Value (AUD):
From $5,000.00 to $500,000.00
Instructions for Application Submission:
To apply go to https://www.business.gov.au/SADI
Other Instructions:
business.gov.au provides information and advice to customers via a range of channels including phone (13 28 46), email and web chat. Contact us for assistance.
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