Deadline: 10-Mar-23
Applications are open for its Otago Science Into Action has funding available to support participatory science projects.
Categories
- Seed Funding
- Project Funding
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.
- There are two types of funding available:
- Seed Funding can be used to help further develop the community group, and connect it with scientists/technologists to help shape the most appropriate research question(s) and scientific design. Each Seed Funding project can be up to $2,000 (excl. GST). Seed Funding can be applied for at any time.
- 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 can be for up to $20,000 (excl. GST). Project Funding proposals are called for each year.
Projects
- 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.
Deadlines
- Seed Funding: Ongoing
- Project Funding: 10/March/2023
For more information, visit Otago Science Into Action.