Funding, Prizes and Awards – 28 March 2023
Current MRFF Grant Opportunities
Forecast MRFF Grant Opportunities
The MRFF Consumer Reference Panel has just released Principles for Consumer Involvement in Research Funded by the Medical Research Future Fund. These principles aim to promote collaboration between consumers, researchers and other key stakeholders to further strengthen the impact of MRFF-funded research.
Funding, Prizes and Awards – 28 March 2023
The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation (LMCF) has opened EOIs for three grant rounds:
2023 Affordable Housing Challenge – individual grants ranging between $30,000 – $50,000. Closing 20 April 2023 with applicants notified in July 2023.
The 2023 Affordable Housing Challenge will again focus on eligible not-for-profits, including faith-based organisations, who wish to use their land holding, including vacant land, strata or redevelopment of existing buildings, to increase the supply of affordable housing in Melbourne. The Challenge is intended to encourage not-for-profits to utilise their existing land holdings and demonstrate a scalable and replicable solution to providing affordable rental housing.
The 2023 Affordable Housing Challenge will include funding for eligible organisations to undertake a feasibility study to develop affordable housing on underutilised land in Greater Melbourne. Feasibility studies allow organisations to analyse parts of a potential capital works development, and could include:
Feasibility grant amount:
2023 Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods Challenge – individual grants up to $100,000. Closing 13 April 2023, with full applications required in May 2023 and applicants notified in July 2023
Projects funded through this Challenge will nurture the capabilities, social capital, and community infrastructure of communities whose climate resilience is currently undermined by health inequities. They will show how peoples’ lives are demonstrably improved when climate change adaptation and emissions reduction efforts are combined through a regenerative social justice lens.
Projects could enable community organisations to continue, re-energise, or catalyse partnerships, including those with government, researchers, or other not-for-profits. They could be on a single site, a street, a network of sites, or beyond. As there is no single way to enable climate resilience, the Challenge encourages fresh and innovative ideas, as well as those that build upon existing related efforts.
A total funding pool of $300,000 is available for successful projects and initiatives, with a maximum of $100,000 for any project.
2023 Next Economy Jobs Challenge – seed grants up to $50,000, scaling grants up to $100,000. Closing 13 April 2023, with full applications required in April 2023 and applicants notified in June 2023.
Grants will support eligible charities and their partners to test and develop new models, enterprises and programs that encourage ‘next economy’ transitions to employment for individuals and communities experiencing socio-economic disadvantage.
Complex interconnected challenges such as the COVID-19 Pandemic, the climate crisis and growing economic inequality are reshaping Australia’s economy. Australia is facing a critical shortage in skilled workers for both existing and emerging industries as the urgent transition to net-zero carbon emissions gathers pace.
With a focus on addressing disadvantage through quality transitions to employment, the Next Economy Jobs Challenge 2023 seeks to catalyse innovative job creation in these sectors:
Grants will focus on building the capacity of organisations and enterprises to generate employment outcomes, build sustainability, and/or scale for social procurement opportunities and greater impact.
LIMITATIONS AND SUBMISSIONS
The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation does not fund clinical research trials and has a preference for funding projects within universities and research institutes that have the capacity to bring transformational change to a particular sector or area of practice. In addition to the Foundation’s general exclusions, universities and research institutes should note the following requirements:
IMPORTANT DATES
All shortlisting of EOIs will be made with the advice of Advancement and the MRO based on program alignment and funding likelihood. The following deadlines an templates are provided to give applicants the maximum amount of time to finish a draft of a full application by the funder deadline.
For 2023 Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods Challenge and 2023 Next Economy Jobs Challenge:
For 2023 Affordable Housing Challenge:
If you wish to submit an EOI for this opportunity please use the template attached to this email for assessment purposes.
Please submit your Internal EOI by email to:
EOIs submitted to the contacts listed above will then be shortlisted and sent to MRO for the next stage of the selection process.
Please do not create a Pure record for your EOI. Only applications nominated by Monash MRO for submission to the funder should be entered into Pure. It will be the responsibility of the applicant to submit their application to the funder.
Please use these Application forms as a template for your EOI Submission:
Additional information:
Please note that the funder may update their guidelines on their website – please ensure you are referring to the most recent version of the guidelines when developing your EOI/Application.
Please contact mro-applications@monash.edu or the contacts listed above should you have any questions or concerns regarding this funding opportunity or the EOI process.
Funding, Prizes and Awards – 28 March 2023
Please be advised that the ARC have updated and confirmed new dates for the assessment rounds of Linkage Projects 2023.
Please see the dot points below for updated information regarding this scheme. This information can also be found on the ARC website.
There are now two assessment rounds for applications for Linkage Projects for funding applied for in 2023. Applications can be submitted at any time between 14 December 2022 and 13 December 2023 and will be assessed within one of two assessment rounds:
Linkage Projects 2023 Assessment Round 1 (LP2301)
Linkage Projects 2023 Assessment Round 2 (LP2302)
Eligibility and Compliance Checks
With the new submission deadline for LP2201 being in May, MRO have subsequently adjusted the internal deadline for Eligibility and Compliance checks: Please press ‘Send to Pre-Approval” in your Pure record by EOB 12 April 2023 if you would like your application to receive an Eligibility and Compliance check for Assessment Round 1.
Internal deadlines for Eligibility and Compliance checks for Round 2 will be provided when Round 1 has closed.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding these updated dates, please email mro-applications@monash.edu
Funding, Prizes and Awards – 28 March 2023
Applications close on 30 June 2023
Moderna has announced a new Australian-specific Fellowship program that Moderna will open on an annual basis over the next five years (see attached flyer)
The program aims to support Australian-based scientists working on concepts that have the potential to advance mRNA medicine.
Two fellowships will be awarded each year and include salary and research costs, as well as expert mentorship, experiential learning, and collaboration with Moderna’s world-leading R&D teams to support the recipient’s industry capabilities across a variety of learning focus areas.
This new program will be a partner to Moderna’s Global Fellowship Program which has run successfully since 2021 and has already awarded seven Australian Fellowships.
To find out more and apply, please visit: https://www.modernatx.com/en-AU/fellowship
If you have any questions, please email: masupport.apac@modernatx.com
