Deadline: 2-Nov-22
The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) is seeking applications for the Endeavour Fund to support excellent research with the potential to positively transform New Zealand’s economy, environment and society.
The fund uses an open, contestable mechanism to select excellent research proposals that will provide the highest potential impacts across a range of economic, environmental, and social objectives.
Funding is made through two investment mechanisms – Smart Ideas and Research Programmes.
- Smart Ideas are intended to catalyse and rapidly test promising, innovative research ideas with high potential for benefit to New Zealand, to refresh and enable diversity in the science portfolio.
- Research Programmes are intended to support ambitious, excellent and well-defined research ideas which have credible and high potential to positively transform New Zealand’s future in areas of future value, growth, or critical need.
Funding Information
- Smart Ideas- $18 million
- Funding Available per Contract is $0.4 – $1.0 million over the term of the contract for 2 or 3 years.
- Research Programmes– $39 million
- Funding Available per Contract is $0.5 million or more per year for 3, 4, or 5 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- For proposals to be eligible under the Endeavour Fund, they must:
- Be made by a New Zealand-based Research Organisation or a New Zealand-based legal entity representing a New Zealand-based Research Organisation.
- Be designed so that the majority of benefits accrue outside of the Research Organisation or legal entity which represents the Research Organisation.
- Not be made by a department of the public service as listed in Schedule 2 of the Public Service Act 2020.
- Be made under an investment mechanism specified in the Schedules to the 2023 Gazette Notice.
- Be for research, science or technology, or related activities, the majority of which are to be undertaken in New Zealand, unless the Science Board considers that there are compelling reasons to consider the proposals, despite the amount of research, science or technology or related activities being proposed to be undertaken overseas.
- Not benefit a Russian state institution (including but not limited to support for Russian military or security activity) or an organisation outside government that may be perceived as contributing to the war effort.
- Meet any applicable timing, formatting, system or other similar administrative requirements imposed by MBIE in supplying administrative services to the Science Board under section 10(7) of the RS&T Act 2010.
- Advise that the proposed funding recipient will, and the Science Board is of the view that it can, adhere to the terms and conditions of funding set out in an investment contract determined by the Science Board.
- Must not be for activities already funded elsewhere. In addition to the above criteria, to be eligible:
- Research proposals can include some out-of-scope research outcomes (Health, Defence and Expanding Knowledge) and remain eligible, as long as the sum of these outcomes is less than 50% of the proposal’s outcomes.
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