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Project Grants
Introduction
A Project Grant is a funding agreement with an eligible Australian institution to enable an individual researcher or a group of researchers to undertake a scientific investigation.
The Project Grant Scheme is the NHMRC's main avenue of support for individuals and small teams of researchers undertaking biomedical, clinical, public health or health services research in Australian universities, medical schools, hospitals or other research institutions.
While a Project Grant specifies financial support for individual researchers working on a specified topic, the institution is responsible for administration of the award and accepts responsibility for the financial management of the grant. The institution is also responsible for providing basic infrastructure support to those involved in the research project.
A further research question may arise as a result of the successful completion of a Project Grant. This will require a new application for an NHMRC Project Grant and that application will be peer reviewed and considered with all other applications submitted in that application year. On average 25% of applicants each year are successful in obtaining a grant through this scheme.
Advertisements inviting applications for Project Grant support appear in the press and by electronic notification to Australian research institutions in December each year.
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Project Grant types
The types of Project Grants available are described below.
Standard Project Grants
If you are requesting more than three years of funding you must provide justification for this request in the Background and Research Plan.
New Investigator Grants
New Investigator Grants are aimed at providing an avenue for less experienced researchers to access NHMRC Project Grant funding. Those eligible to apply for a New Investigator Grant include (but are not restricted to) holders of NHMRC Career Development Awards and those returning to the workforce or returning from overseas, who:
- are not named as a Chief Investigator on a previously supported NHMRC Project Grant; and
- have not received a competitive research grant of greater than $50,000 from another source as a Chief Investigator or equivalent (excluding funding from the institution at which the researcher is previously or currently employed).
Applications requesting funding as a New Investigator must be justified.
Cancer Council funding / National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF)
All applications for funding by a Cancer Council and NBCF are to be submitted and reviewed through the Project Grant funding scheme.
» See more information on Cancer Council and NBCF
Cancer Australia
All applications for funding by Cancer Australia are to be submitted and reviewed through the Project Grant funding scheme.
» See more information on Cancer Australia
Heart Foundation
All applications for funding by the Heart Foundation are to be submitted and reviewed through the Project Grant funding scheme.
» See more information on the Heart Foundation
Department of Health and Ageing – Innovation in Chronic Disease self -management
In partnership with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Department of Health and Ageing, Primary & Ambulatory Care Division, and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs will offer grants to fund research aimed at expanding the range of evidence-based chronic disease interventions to support self-management in Australia. The primary focus will be on the harder-to-reach population groups in the community including:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;
- people from culturally and linguistically diverse populations;
- people experiencing socio-economic disadvantage; and
- children and adolescents.
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is seeking proposals which specifically target the veteran population. These proposals should reflect the demographics of the veteran population which is a relatively elderly one with 75% of treatment beneficiaries being 75 or older.
Proposals are being sought for practical applied research projects to identify, develop and test, innovative chronic disease interventions to support self-management for use in the Australian context.
» See more information regarding the Innovations in Chronic Disease Self-management Research Grants
All applications for funding by Department of Health and Ageing for Chronic Disease are to be submitted and reviewed through the Project Grant funding scheme.
Development Grants
The NHMRC Development Grants Scheme aims to support the development of health or medical research that has commercial potential and which has the potential to benefit the Australian community, and provide funding for research commercialisation at the early proof-of-concept stage.
» See more information on Development Grants
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