Deadline: 08-Mar-2024
The Otago Science Into Action provides funding to support Participatory Science Projects in New Zealand.
Project Funding
- Funding to turn plans into actions
- This funding is to undertake a participatory science project. Projects are likely to involve:
- Collecting and analysing data
- Translating data into insights
- Knowledge sharing and implementation
- Project funding provides support for tools, materials and costs not otherwise available to the project partners.
Funding Information
- Up to $20,000 (excl. GST) per project
What can the funding be used for?
- Funding can be used by the community groups and science & technology professionals to plan together and progress their research ideas.
- Project Funding can be used to undertake the research project, including data collection and analysis, as well as the implementation and sharing of the new knowledge within the community. Project Funding proposals are called for each year.
- Funding can be used to cover costs associated with travel, meetings and liaison, as well as research tools, consumables and related expenses not reasonably available to the project partners.
- Funding may be used to substantially enhance an existing or ongoing research project, so long as the project meets the mentioned criteria – i.e., has strong local relevance and support. In these instances, community partners must be fully integrated into the research project, including becoming engaged in guiding the research questions, collecting the data and disseminating the results.
To receive funding, projects must be:
- Community-driven: The research must be relevant to, and resonate with, the community.
- Connected with scientists: Involve active participation of communities in the scientific process, making the most of their local knowledge and generating new scientific and/or technological insights.
- Educational: Offer real learning outcomes to students and young people involved, and two-way learning between the wider community and the science partners.
Eligibility Criteria
- Either the community group or their science partners can apply for funding.
- Community groups include many organisations and clusters such as: students/young people, schools, kura, local rūnaka, business, industry, and environmental or cultural-based organisations.
- Groups can be a geographical community or a “community of interest” spanning several locations, but they must be Otago-based.
For more information, visit Otago Science Into Action.