Funding for medical research projects that will minimise antimicrobial resistance

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• are incorporated in Australia.

You must also be one of the following entities:

• a medical research institute
• a university
• a corporate Commonwealth entity
• a corporation (including businesses and not for profits).

You can’t apply if you:

• 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 employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• an individual
• partnership
• unincorporated association
• trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity
• any organisation not listed in the eligible entity list.

Partner with other organisations

You can partner with one or more other organisations that also meet the eligibility criteria. But you must decide who the lead organisation is.

The lead organisation must fill out the application form and enter into the grant agreement with the Commonwealth.

If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:

• signs the grant agreement
• is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.

You must complete your project within 5 years of the date of executing a grant agreement.

We can only accept applications that provide:

• a list of up to 15 chief investigators using the mandatory templates on business.gov.au - with none of these people permitted to be listed on any other application
• evidence from your board (or chief executive officer or equivalent if there is no board) that the project is supported, that you can complete the project and meet any costs not covered by grant funding
• letters of support from each project partner/consortia partner
• a detailed project plan (maximum of 12 pages)
• a detailed project budget
• a one-page statement of how your project will contribute to the Measures of Success for the MRFF as described in the MRFF Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Strategy
• a detailed risk management plan (maximum of 2 pages)
• details of Intellectual Property arrangements if not included within the written content of the application.

You can apply for a grant up to $2 million.