Deadline: 31-Mar-25
The Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) is currently accepting applications for the Accelerator Grants to fund projects that augment the current aged care workforce to deliver specialist care, support, knowledge and resources to where they’re needed via digital or assistive technology, telehealth, or innovative workforce and human service models.
The Accelerator Grants will fund the expansion of approaches that have evidence of success. Projects will test the approach in a different setting, location or with a different group of care recipients. Acknowledging that not all approaches are scalable or transferable to different contexts, these grants provide the opportunity to test an evidenced solution for its potential broader scalability across the aged care sector.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $100,000 are available via one grant round, with a requirement for matched co-contribution (cash and/or in-kind).
- Project funding period: A maximum of 1 year (anticipated to be June 2025 – June 2026)
Eligible Expenditure
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a consortium consisting of at least:
- One aged care service provider; and
- One research organisation.
- Nominate a Lead Organisation that takes responsibility for compliance with the Grant Funding Agreement including milestones, deliverables, project governance and financial accountability and sub-contract or commercial responsibilities.
- The Lead Organisation must:
- Be incorporated in Australia with an active ABN; and
- Be registered for GST.
For more information, visit ARIIA.