The ATN recognises the potential for multi-university and cross disciplinary research and our researchers collaborate extensively in focused areas of excellence.
Our members have acted upon that, collaborating extensively, and each has developed focused areas of research excellence strategically to support the ATN mission of being an alliance of world-leading universities in the field of practical research solutions.
The ATN’s commitment to research and its reputation for results continues to encourage a suite a partnerships and linkages both National and International.
The ATN embraces a ‘can-do’ attitude to ensuring that those partnerships and linkages deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.
Currently the ATN has a breadth of research projects and programs underway that are considered to be at the forefront of their fields.
These include the:
ATN universities have always had a strong focus on undertaking research of interest and use to business and industry.
As a network, the ATN is involved in 25 of Australia's Cooperative Research Centres, bodies formed through collaborative partnerships between publicly funded researchers and end users.