Grants to deliver STEM related activities and events to Australian youth under 18 years of age

You're not eligible to apply if you're:

• an individual
• a partnership
• an unincorporated association
• any organisation not included in section 4.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a primary or secondary schools (however schools may benefit from activities)
• a Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government body (including government business enterprises) that does not undertake publicly funded research
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity
• parents and citizens, parents and friends groups and equivalent bodies

To be eligible your project must be aimed at delivering STEM-related activities and events to meet the objectives and outcomes outlined in section 2.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines.

Your activities must:

• be for the benefit of youth under 18 years of age
• include scientific, technological, engineering or mathematics experts, inventors, innovators or entrepreneurs to work with participants to gain practical knowledge and skills in design, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
• include either new activities or an expansion to the applicant's existing business as usual activities
• be collaborative in nature and include at least one partner organisation during the life of the project as per section 4.2 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• have at least $25,000 in eligible expenditure
• include eligible activities such as those described in section 5.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines and the FAQ

We assess your application against the eligibility criteria and then against the assessment criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the assessment stage.

The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide in your application should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. You should define, quantify and provide evidence to support your answers. The sample application form displays character limits. We will only award funding to applications that score highly against all assessment criteria and who score at least 50% on each criterion, as these represent best value for money.

We refer your application to the Maker Projects: Community STEM Engagement grants Committee, a committee of experts. The committee may also seek additional advice from independent technical experts.

The Committee will assess your application against the assessment criteria and compare it to other eligible applications in a funding round before recommending which projects to fund.

The Program Delegate will make the final decision.

To be competitive you must score highly against all of the assessment criteria.

• Assessment criterion 1: The reach and impact of your project (50 points).
• Assessment criterion 2: Capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (25 points).
• Assessment criterion 3: Impact of grant funding on your project (25 points).

If your application is successful, you’ll receive a written offer. If you're 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.

We’ll make the first payment when the grant agreement is executed. We’ll make subsequent payments after we've received and accepted the required report. We set aside at least $5000 of the total grant funding for the final payment. We’ll pay this when you submit a satisfactory final report.

Payments will be made by direct credit into a nominated bank account.