Supporting Indigenous-led medical research through culturally safe care for mothers and their babies

Applications will be considered for an Innovation grant if they:

• do not receive an Accelerator grant
• propose research that is either led by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander researcher (Chief Investigator A) or conducted by a research team (Chief Investigators) that comprises at least 50% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers
• are recommended for an Innovation Grant by the Grant Assessment Committee.

Innovation grants have fixed funding. Each Innovation grant recipient will receive $200,000.

If successful for an innovation grant, you will be required to submit a revised project scope and you must complete your project within 12 months from the date of execution.

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• an individual
• partnership
• unincorporated association
• any organisation not included in section 3.1 of the guidelines
• trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity
• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’
• an organisation that has been named by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an organisation that has not complied with Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012.

We review your application against the eligibility criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the assessment stage. Eligible applications are then assessed against the assessment criteria by an independent committee of experts.

The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide in your application should suit the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. You should define, quantify and provide evidence to support your answers. The sample application form has character limits.

The program delegate will consider recommendations from the independent committee of experts and make the final decision.

We will assess your application based on the weighting given to each criteria.

• Assessment criterion 1 Project impact (40%)
• Assessment criterion 2 Project methodology (30%)
• Assessment criterion 3 Capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project Capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (30%)
• Assessment criterion 4 Overall Value and Risk of the Project (non-weighted)
• Scoring information for all assessment criteria can be found at Appendix C and Appendix D of the grant opportunity guidelines.

If your application is successful, you’ll receive a written offer. If you are unsuccessful, we’ll notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.

Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will specify the reporting requirements, payment schedule and milestones necessary to receive payments.

Payments are subject to satisfactory progress on the project and will be made by direct credit into a nominated bank account.