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APPLY FOR FUNDING

We provide a range of funding to connect you with international scientific drilling programs, workshops, and to help you explore the vast library of already collected core, samples and data, and for research and education projects!

A range of funding is available to support scientists in our member institutions. 

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ANZIC CORE  Funding – to enable your research and education projects

ANZIC Expeditioner and Project Funding Support – funding travel to drilling projects and post-drilling research

ANZIC Travel Support – to attend international Proposal Planning Workshops

International Legacy Funding

ANZIC CORE Funding

We invite proposals for geoscience or education projects linked to scientific drilling or coring.

Apply now with our Continent & Ocean Research & Education (CORE) Funding.

Our 2026 funding round is now closed! The next round is scheduled to open in June 2027.

Learn more & Apply

Since 2012
ANZIC has funded 135 Legacy Projects

Totalling nearly $2.5M

Learn about the impact, history and success of our CORE Funding program in our CORE Legacy Report, a detailed evaluation of the scheme, its recipients and legacy.

Our AILAF project provided the pilot data that went into a successful ARC bid - Fire and rain: Drivers of deep-time ecosystem assembly in Australia.
Dr Cesca McInerney
Dr Cesca McInerneySenior Research Fellow, Flinders University.
ANZIC provides very valued funding for interdisciplinary research. $20k is valuable seed money to try new approaches and/or kick start a new collaboration. I don't know of any other scheme where I could apply for seed $ to get a project like this off the ground.
Dr Jacqueline Halpin
Dr Jacqueline HalpinSenior Lecturer, University of Tasmania.
Our AILAF was the first part of a larger effort on understanding plate-plume interactions in the Coral Sea and ... helped framed our ideas for a successful ARC Discovery Proposal.
Associate Professor Maria SetonUniversity of Sydney

Projects we have funded in the past

Lake Yamma Yamma

2025 CORE funding recipients

Ten new and exciting projects received CORE funding.

New Zealand projects funded in 2024

Read about the four projects funded within Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024.

Tracking the travels of dust - could ocean cores hold the key?

University of Wollongong Researcher, Dr Sam Marx, investigates the transport of Australia's iconic desert dust, with help from deposits found in deep ocean cores thousands of kilometres away, and an AILAF Grant.


Research impact

Our small grants have contributed big things to the collective scientific knowledge!

They have contributed to least 53 peer reviewed publications, 31 Masters and PhD theses, and 9 undergraduate and Honours projects. The findings of AILAF projects have been shared in dozens of presentations and media articles. Learn more in our CORE Legacy Report.


ANZIC Expeditioner and Project Funding Support

ANZIC supports scientists and students from Australian and New Zealand member institutions to participate in international scientific drilling expeditions and projects.

Our financial support is designed to help ANZIC researchers make the most of these opportunities, from joining an expedition or project, through to post-drilling research, analysis and collaboration.

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ANZIC Travel support

ANZIC provides funding to support scientists from our member institutions to attend international Proposal Planning Workshops to  help shape new scientific drilling plans. 

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International Legacy Funding

Several international schemes support large, interdisciplinary projects making use of legacy drilling samples and data:

  • Scientific Projects using Ocean Drilling Archives (SPARCs) from IODP3
  • The Repository Core Re-Discovery Program (ReCoRD) from Kochi Core Center and J-DESC

New proposals for these schemes should be submitted to our international partners – see the New Proposals page for currently open calls.