Apply Now: Research Data Infrastructure Grant (Australia)

This grant opportunity is part of the Medical Research Future Fund and the Research Data Infrastructure Initiative. It looks to fund the creation or extension of national research data infrastructure to support world-class health and medical research in Australia.

Research proposals should incorporate:

• new linkage and/or use of data from multiple (at least two) existing research data infrastructure sources of different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data, registry and biobank data, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and/or
• novel methodologies and approaches that leverage and enhance existing linked research data infrastructure of at least two different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data, registry and biobank data, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and
• a clear outline of how the proposed project will produce knowledge and outcomes that address and area of unmet medical need.

Objectives

• The objective and intended outcome of this grant opportunity are aligned with the following Australian Medical Research and Innovation Priorities 2022-2024:
  • Research Infrastructure and Capability
  • Data, Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence.

Funding Information

• For this grant opportunity, up to $10 million is available in 2024-25.
• The grant amount will be up to 100 per cent of eligible project costs (grant percentage).
  • There is no minimum grant amount
  • The maximum amount available for a single grant is $2.5 million.
• You must complete your project within 4 years of the project start date.
• The Program Delegate may approve an extension of time under certain circumstances.

Eligible Activities

• To be eligible your project must:
  • be aimed at the objectives
  • include one or more of the following eligible activities:
    • development/installation of research equipment required for the synthesis, repurposing and transformation of existing research data infrastructure
    • employment of personnel and/or
    • other direct research costs.

Who is eligible?

• To be eligible you must:
  • have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
  • be incorporated in Australia
• and in accordance with s24 of the MRFF Act 2015, be one of the following entities:
  • a medical research institute
  • a university
  • a corporate Commonwealth entity
  • a corporation (including businesses and not for profits).
• Joint applications are encouraged, provided you have a lead organisation who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply.

Who is not eligible?

• You are not eligible to apply if you are:
  • an individual
  • partnership
  • unincorporated association
  • 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 website on the 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).

For more information, visit Australian Government.