Deadline: 17-Feb-23
The Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) is seeking applications from organisations who have a project that will contribute to the betterment of the aged care sector through improved service delivery, adoption of technology and quality of care, and can address one of ARIIA’s sector priorities.
The Grant Program is open to all eligible applicants who wish to contribute to the aged care sector’s workforce capability and capacity by implementing evidence-based research findings that will lead to scalable and translatable solutions and improvements in:
- Service delivery
- Adoption of technology
- Quality of care.
Priorities
- Dementia
- Restorative care, reablement and rehabilitation
- Social isolation
- Mental health & wellbeing
- Palliative care & end of life
- Meaningful lifestyle activities
- Addressing staff burnout to increase retention of the aged care workforce
- Urgent and critical need.
Funding Information
- While ARIIA will fund 80% of the total project costs up to a maximum of $160,000 per project, the Lead and/or Participating Organisations must contribute a minimum of 20% of the total project costs.
- For example, successful applications:
- Costing $200,000 will receive $160,000 from ARIIA with $40,000 contribution from the lead and/or Participating Organisation/s.
- Costing $300,000 will still only receive $160,000 from ARIIA with $140,000 coming from the lead and/or Participating Organisations.
- Costing $100,000 will receive $80,000 from ARIIA with $20,000 contribution from the lead and/or Participating Organisations.
- Duration: Project funding period A maximum of 1 year.
Eligible Expenditure
- All budget items need to be justified in the project plan. Budget items (expenses related to the grant amount requested and minimum co-contributions) that directly support the project are eligible. These include, but are not limited to:
- Salaries and on-costs for personnel who perform the project or activities that support the project. Note that while salary overheads are eligible, organisational/institutional overheads are not eligible.
- Subcontractor costs are eligible for advisory purposes only. The use of subcontractors for other purposes are not eligible expenditure as a goal of this program is to enhance aged care workforce capability.
- Equipment, hardware and software specifically required for the project.
- Consumables required for the project but excluding those deemed to be for broad general use.
- Costs for publication and dissemination of outputs and outreach activity.
- Costs supporting stakeholder participation in co-design activities where this is related to the project.
- Intellectual Property protection costs.
- Ethics application costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- For Round 4 ARIIA has consulted with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission and agreed to add the priority topic ‘Addressing staff burnout to increase retention of the aged care workforce’.
- Be a consortium consisting of at least:
- One aged care service provider; and
- One research organisation (either a university, a publicly funded research organisation, or an organisation that has a research focus).
- Have a Lead Organisation that takes on research compliance and commercial responsibilities as stated in the Grant Agreement. The Lead Organisation must:
- Be incorporated in Australia with an active ABN; and
- Be registered for GST.
- Note that an organisation can only be the Lead Organisation in one application per round but can join as a participating organisation in multiple applications. Also, if appropriate, or if the capability does not exist, ARIIA can provide commercialisation support services at a cost to the consortium. If one or more Participating Organisation/s are located outside Australia, then the Project costs must be expended in Australia (unless approved by ARIIA in writing) and the application must articulate the benefits of the Project to Australia.
- Articulate that the project has the potential in Growth and/or Translational Research outcomes. These projects will support/enhance workforce capability and/or improve care delivery and care outcomes for residents and clients.
- Growth projects are those that will increase capacity to adopt products and technologies for aged care delivery.
- Translational Research projects are those that focus on the adoption and implementation of existing research evidence in an aged care setting
- The translation may be from existing aged care evidence, or evidence from another setting, population, or industry where the existing evidence supports its potential transferability to trial in the aged care sector.
For more information, visit ARIIA.
