Welcome to the Enabling Impact Platform Strategic Impact Fund 2025 online grant application.
IMPORTANT: Please read the information below to assist you in completing your application online.
The Strategic Impact Fund (SIF) supports the development of interdisciplinary opportunities that explore diverse (conventional and unconventional) pathways to research impact, and are aligned to RMIT’s six desired Futures, through two funding streams:
FUNDING:
$3,000 - $10,000
This fund supports strategic influence, advocacy and engagement, through modes including (but not limited to) externally-facing concept papers, roadmaps, policy briefs/briefing papers, proof of principle demonstration, speculative designs, and demonstration projects.
$5,000 - $50,000 (NOTE: Typically range from $20,000 - $30,000)
Strategic Impact Funds will support activities that focus on modes of building or consolidating pathways for engaging with community, industry, or government to create societal impacts from research outcomes. Priority will be given to projects that seed high impact-potential initiatives to tackle large, complex problems or to capture large opportunities. Typical grants will range from $20,000-$30,000; in rare cases, projects of significant scale will be considered, for grant requests between $30,000-$50,000.
CLOSING DATE: February 27, 2025.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Applicants should review the selection and eligibility criteria outlined in the Strategic Impact Fund 2025 Guidelines, and the Success Factors for Strategic Impact Fund Proposals document available at the EIP Funding Opportunities page.
To increase competitiveness of applications, after you have read the scheme documents, you are welcome to approach one of the EIP Directors for guidance. Contact details for the 8 Enabling Impact Platform Directors are available from the relevant Platform pages at the EIP Sharepoint site.
Prior to submitting an application for Strategic Impact Funding, it is also recommended applicants review RMIT’s other internal funding opportunities to determine which funding scheme/s best align(s) with your proposal.
NOTE: this scheme is not suitable for research grant proposals, such as seed grants for research projects or proposals for new primary research.
Please direct all enquiries, including queries regarding the application and selection process to research.capability@rmit.edu.au, quoting your submission number.
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