BRII – Workplace Relations Usability Challenge: Feasibility Grant (Australia)

This grant opportunity will focus specifically on making it easier for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage with modern awards. The objectives of the grant opportunity are:

• to facilitate the development of technologies that support SMEs to find, navigate and utilise information to support their engagement with modern award obligations
• to seek innovative uses of the Fair Work Commission’s Modern Award Pay Database that supports SMEs to access modern award calculated rates of pay that are provided in the Modern Awards Pay Database.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are:

• the completion of a project demonstrating the scientific, technical and commercial feasibility of your proposed solution to the challenge

Grants Available

• A total of $2.5 million is available for the program over 3 years for both stages.
  • For this grant opportunity $500,000 is available for the Feasibility grant stage over 3 months.
• The grant amount will be up to 100 per cent of eligible project expenditure (grant percentage).
  • The maximum grant amount is $100,000.
• Project period: The maximum project period is three months

Eligible Activities

Eligible activities must directly relate to your project and can include:

• determining the technical viability of your proposed solution
• determining the novelty of your proposed solution compared to existing offerings
• determining the commercial potential of your proposed solution in domestic and/or international markets
• determining any security issues relating to your proposed solution.

Who is eligible?

• To be eligible you must:
  • have an Australian Business Number (ABN) and be one of the following entities:
  • an entity, incorporated in Australia
  • an individual or partnership, provided you agree to form a company incorporated in Australia to enter into a grant agreement.
• Joint applications are acceptable, provided you have a lead organisation who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply.
• They can only accept applications where:
  • you have a combined annual turnover of less than $20 million for each of the three financial years prior to the lodgement of the application (unless you are controlled by a Publicly Funded Research Organisation, including university spinoffs with at least 40 per cent university ownership, in which case you must have annual turnover in isolation of less than $20 million for each of the three financial years prior to lodgement of the application).

For more information, visit Australian Government.