Money, where it sits.

The University of Melbourne

? – $2.3M

Closes 2026-05-23

Young people shaping livelihoods across three generations. This proposal for a third cohort to the Life Patterns longitudinal study aims to investigate how in a context of technological and structural change a new generation of young Australians builds livelihood-resilience, keeping the focus on those elements that have proven to be enabling for previous generations. The project aims to generate new knowledge about the influences of education, work, housing, relationships, wellbeing on positive trajectories. Expected outcomes of this project include systematic evidence and a new holistic livelihood-resilience framework for analysing youth trajectories. This project should provide significant benefits to the national response supporting positive youth transitions through education and work.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 1608 - Sociology. Lead: Prof Johanna Wyn

University of Technology Sydney

? – $501K

Closes 2026-05-24

Modernise geotechnical investigation and analysis with machine learning. The project aims to address the ineffectiveness associated with risk analysis of geotechnical systems by reducing variabilities and by rigorously quantifying such variabilities. It is expected to generate new knowledge in machine-learning-aided risk analysis and in virtual modelling of multiphase-multiphysics-multiscale problems involving random variables. Expected outcomes are datasets and computer tools that are equipped with new functionalities including parameter optimisation, uncertainty quantification, machine-learning based surrogate models and risk analysis. These tools will help to bridge the increasing gap between academic research and engineering practice, transform geo-risk analysis and optimise complex construction processes.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4005 - Civil Engineering. Lead: Prof Daichao Sheng

RMIT University

? – $559K

Closes 2026-05-24

Plant-mediated arsenic-iron mineral transformations. The project goals are to advance our understanding of molecular-level iron-arsenic transformations induced at plant-mineral-atmosphere interfaces as influenced by remediation actions and future environmental change. The project aims for this to be achieved through an innovative experimental infrastructure combined with isotopic, spectroscopic and advanced synchrotron-based tools. Intended outcomes and benefits are the generation of new knowledge, which will improve current understanding of arsenic and iron fate impacted by remediation actions, plant growth and planetary changes induced via the atmosphere-plant-soil interface.. Scheme: Discovery Indigenous. Field: 4106 - Soil Sciences. Lead: A/Prof Dane Lamb

Monash University

? – $355K

Closes 2026-05-24

Scalable & Accountable Privacy-Preserving Blockchain with Enhanced Security. This project aims to address the scalability and accountability of privacy-preserving blockchain by advancing cryptographic techniques. This project expects to develop scalable protocols for privacy-preserving blockchain while also adding accountability for authority to trace cyber crime activities, which is a missing piece in any state-of-the-art public blockchain system. Expected outcomes of this project include not only practical solutions for protecting sensitive data recorded in blockchain but also crucial techniques to make the blockchain accountable for practical applications with enhanced security. This project provides significant benefits, such as building a trusted environment for sensitive transactions in the digital economy.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0803 - Computer Software. Lead: Prof Joseph Liu

NSW Government

? – $75K

Closes 2026-05-25

The Creative Nations Program supports First Nations artists, cultural workers, organisations and communities through their artistic expressions that continue to sustain and strengthen First Nations arts and culture in NSW.

NSW Government

$50K – $800K

Closes 2026-05-25

Taking Expressions of Interest: ACCO-led ECEC Sector Growth Partnership Program Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO) who are approved Early Learning providers or are seeking to become approved Early Learning providers.

NSW Government

$1K – $2K

Closes 2026-05-25

The NSW National Carers Week Grants program awards grants for community activities or events that recognise and celebrate carers and create opportunities for connection across NSW, during National Carers Week.

NSW Government — Aboriginal Languages Trust

? – $600K

Closes 2026-05-25

The Language Centres Partnership Program (LCPP) is a new initiative funded under NSW Closing the Gap to increase the number of Language Centres and sustainable investment in Aboriginal Language Centres in NSW.

Monash University

? – $299K

Closes 2026-05-25

Toward a Female Stoic Tradition: Women's Writings in England, 1600-1800. This project aims to investigate the neglected history of women’s engagement with Stoic ideas in early modern England. It expects to generate new knowledge of a distinctive strand of women’s Stoic thought by taking a novel interdisciplinary approach to different genres of early modern writing. The intended outcomes include a new understanding of women’s valuable contributions to philosophy, literature, and politics in the period, as well as a greater appreciation of the gender-inclusivity of Stoic philosophy. This should provide significant benefits, such as the development of Stoic therapeutic techniques informed by women’s experiences, and the promotion of gender equality through the recognition of women’s intellectual history.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 2202 - History and Philosophy of Specific Fields. Lead: Prof Jacqueline Broad

NSW Government — Create NSW

? – $100K

Closes 2026-05-25

This funding supports individuals, groups and organisations that are led by and/or support ACFP Strategic Priority Area communities to develop and deliver a diverse range of arts and cultural experiences

Redland City Council

? – $20K

Closes 2026-05-25

Support for collaborative projects that deliver meaningful social, cultural, recreational, or environmental outcomes

NSW Government

$10K – $75K

Closes 2026-05-25

This funding supports creative development and presentation of new work by individual artists and arts and cultural workers. Applicants are encouraged to drive and develop partnerships with arts and cultural organisations to support their new works.

NSW Government

? – $75K

Closes 2026-05-25

This grant round is open to individual artists, arts and cultural workers, and organisations who are touring arts and cultural work across regional NSW.

The University of Melbourne

? – $770K

Closes 2026-05-25

Data-led bioengineering to uncover hidden chemical wealth in bacteria. The soil bacteria Nocardia are an untapped source of industrially prized chemical compounds called natural products. This project aims to develop innovative bioprospecting genomics technologies built from the disciplines of microbiology, biochemistry and computational statistics to discover hundreds of new natural products in Nocardia. This project will unlock the diversity of potent new enzymes and molecules with high economic value that could include insecticides to protect crops, bioactives to fight diseases, or new enzymes for food and biofuel production. This research unlocks enormous hidden chemical potential in soil bacteria, to build sustainable national economic growth through innovative, high-value industrial chemical development.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3107 - Microbiology. Lead: Prof Timothy Stinear

NSW Government

$2K – $10K

Closes 2026-05-25

This funding focuses on professional development for individual artists and arts and cultural workers to enable participation in skills development opportunities, workshops, courses and creative sector conferences and networking events.

RMIT University

? – $473K

Closes 2026-05-26

Superhydrophobic thermally rearranged membranes for low-energy separation. This project aims to develop thermally rearranged membranes with superhydrophobicity using novel polymer chemistry and nanofibre morphology. Both water flowrate in membrane distillation and gas flowrate in carbon dioxide stripping from solvents will be increased by minimising the water vapor condensation between the nanofibers; resolving shortcomings in current energy-intensive filtration systems. This project will provide significant benefits to Australian communities by advancing cost-effective and energy-efficient potable water production and carbon dioxide separation processes for sustainable development. The advanced materials developed can be manufactured locally and will enhance our national capability in modern manufacturing.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 0904 - Chemical Engineering. Lead: Dr Seungju Kim

NSW Government

? – $2K

Closes 2026-05-26

Screen NSW and PAX Australia are offering up to 10 NSW-based independent game developers the opportunity to receive funding support to exhibit their digital game at PAX Australia in Melbourne 9-11 October 2026.

Stan Perron Charitable Trust

Closes 2026-05-27

Grants provided for research aimed at improving the health and well-being of children, adolescents and young adults in Western Australia. This round has a specific closing date.

The University of New South Wales

? – $366K

Closes 2026-05-27

Torsion in innovative timber composite floors. Application of lightweight sustainably sourced timber panels combined with steel beams or reinforced concrete slabs in composite floors has the potential to significantly improve the speed and efficiency and reduce the carbon and energy footprint of the construction industry. This project aims to produce world first benchmark experimental data and advanced numerical and simple analytical models required for efficient, yet safe and reliable analysis and design of timber-concrete and steel-timber composite floors subjected to complex 3-dimensional loading scenarios that involve combinations of torsion, bending and shear. The outcomes of this project are expected to promote innovation and advance knowledge in the field of structural mechanics.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0905 - Civil Engineering. Lead: Prof Hamid Valipour

Stan Perron Charitable Trust

Closes 2026-05-27

Grants provided for research aimed at improving the health and well-being of children, adolescents and young adults in Western Australia, specifically for 'People & Platforms' applications.

The University of New South Wales

? – $363K

Closes 2026-05-28

Nitride materials: In the “bond ionicity Goldilocks zone” for solar energy. Progress towards commercial devices for solar-driven hydrogen generation as well as in-situ electricity generation for vehicles is currently hampered by a lack of earth-abundant, stable, non-toxic semiconductor materials that can be fabricated by scalable methods. This project aims to develop the first scalable solution synthesis methods for a new class of earth-abundant Zn-based nitride semiconductor nanocrystals that have favourable bond ionicity and establish their optoelectronic properties for renewable energy devices for the first time. Flexible solution processing methods will be exploited to tune surface composition, remove defects and create devices to achieve optimised performance in these challenging new nitride material systems.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4018 - Nanotechnology. Lead: Prof Martin Green

NSW Government — Transport for NSW

? – $45K

Closes 2026-05-28

Hawkesbury City Council for minor works to reopen the Heavy Vehicle Rest Area near 1767 Bells Line of Road, near Bilpin (Bilpin HVRA).

NSW Government — Transport for NSW

? – $30.0M

Closes 2026-05-28

30 million to Bellingen Shire Council to upgrade Gordonville and Summervilles Roads.

Cumberland Nsw

Closes 2026-05-28

Cumberland ClubGRANTS is a ClubsNSW community grant program supporting local projects and services that provide assistance to people in the Cumberland area.

NSW Government — Create NSW

? – $10K

Closes 2026-05-29

Quick Response Fashion Grants offer up to $10,000 for emerging designers, textile makers, and fashion businesses - prioritising First Nations, Western Sydney, and Regional NSW creatives.

NSW Government — Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

? – $1.2M

Closes 2026-05-29

Kick-start funding is designed for eligible businesses that are interested in piloting a few battery electric vehicles (BEVs) or for smaller fleets that want to start their electrification journey.

The University of Queensland

? – $501K

Closes 2026-05-29

Genetic architecture and evolution of complex traits across populations. Most human traits have a genetic component and display substantial diversity within and among populations. How natural selection changes and maintains genetic variation in human traits is a long-standing question in evolution that the proposed project aims to answer. Using innovative statistical methods and largest genomic “big” datasets ever across populations of different ancestral backgrounds, this project expects to generate new knowledge on the roles of natural selection in shaping the genetic variation in traits and identify key factors that drive the differentiation of human populations. These outcomes will significantly improve our understanding on the evolution of human traits and adaptation of populations to changing environments.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0604 - Genetics. Lead: Dr Jian Zeng

University of Tasmania

? – $498K

Closes 2026-05-29

Governing during an ocean climate crisis: Building integrative capacity . This project aims to investigate how strengthening institutional integrative capacity will lead to more effective integrated oceans management (IOM). Integration across sectors and jurisdictions will enhance cooperation, coordination and policy coherence. This project expects to identify new and innovative approaches to implement IOM by identifying which components of integrative capacity can be improved. Expected outcomes of this project include practical new directions for IOM in Australia and Canada that will increase collaboration between governments, industry, Indigenous groups and communities. This study will improve oceans governance and benefit countries' efforts to mitigate climate change impacts on the marine environment. . Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 1605 - Policy and Administration. Lead: A/Prof Joanna Vince

Charters Towers Regional Council

? – $5K

Closes 2026-05-29

Provides seed funding and in-kind support for eligible not-for-profit community organisations in the Charters Towers Region, with the 2026 round opening in May.

NSW Government — Sound NSW (Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport)

Closes 2026-05-29

This quick response funding program is designed for domestic and international travel activity for NSW contemporary music artists, acts and music industry professionals.

NSW Government

? – $2K

Closes 2026-05-29

Screen NSW will provide funding for NSW-based individuals or teams travelling to eligible screen industry markets, conventions and conferences within Australia, with the aim to attract support and finance for their projects.

NSW Government — NSW Fair Trading

? – $300K

Closes 2026-05-29

This grant provides funding to a not-for-profit organisation to deliver statewide retirement village-specific education, information resources and community engagement. It is part of the Aged Care Supported Accommodation Program (ACSAP).

NSW Government — Screen NSW

? – $2K

Closes 2026-05-29

Screen NSW will provide funding for NSW-based individuals or teams travelling to eligible screen industry markets, conventions and conferences within Australia, with the aim to attract support and finance for their projects.

NSW Government — Multicultural NSW

? – $100K

Closes 2026-05-29

The COMPACT Social Cohesion and Community Resilience Grants supports projects responding to the Bondi terrorist attack of 14 December 2025 and supports whole-of-community recovery over the next two years.

National Heart Foundation Of Australia (South Australian Division) Inc

? – $5K

Closes 2026-05-29

This grant encourages Heart Foundation funded fellows and scholars to visit research facilities in Australia and overseas to develop collaborations, exchange knowledge, and develop skills.

NSW Government — Create NSW

? – $650K

Closes 2026-05-29

Supports delivery of NSW Government-endorsed plans and sector strategies for the creative industries. Eligible applicants demonstrate a proven track record delivering programs and services that achieve sector outcomes.

NSW Government — Sound NSW (Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport)

Closes 2026-05-29

This quick response funding program is designed for domestic and international travel activity for NSW contemporary music artists, acts and music industry professionals.

NSW Government — Screen NSW

? – $50K

Closes 2026-05-29

The Strategic Opportunities Program supports innovative projects designed to strengthen the NSW screen and digital games industries.

Deakin University

? – $490K

Closes 2026-05-29

Striking voices: Australian school-aged students' climate justice activism. Mass student-led climate justice activism emerged as a transnational phenomenon in 2018.This project aims to foster understanding of this phenomenon, through exploring how Australian young people are taking action on climate change, the supports for their activism, and educational conditions of and responses to their climate concerns, using ethnographic and participatory methods. Expected outcomes include online student-curated accounts of social movement participation, and a co-produced teaching and learning framework for schools. Anticipated benefits include a greater understanding of emerging patterns of political engagement, and the development of educational capacity to engage young people and face urgent environmental challenges.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 1608 - Sociology. Lead: Dr Eve Mayes

La Trobe University

? – $640K

Closes 2026-05-29

Outfoxing the fox: new cost-effective ways to protect threatened species. This project aims to address the damage caused by invasive foxes by applying new methods of protection for threatened species. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the areas of conservation biology and invasive species management by comparing the effectiveness of fox control strategies for improving the population viability of declining freshwater turtles. Expected outcomes of this project include a community-based conservation model that prevents turtle extinctions in south-eastern Australia at considerable cost savings. Significant benefits include improved management of the impacts of invasive species, and restoration of ecosystem services provided by the scavenging role of freshwater turtles for maintaining water quality.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0502 - Environmental Science and Management. Lead: A/Prof James Van Dyke

City of Gold Coast

? – $25K

Closes 2026-05-30

Rolling non-competitive program supporting community projects that deliver benefit to the Gold Coast community.

Western Sydney University

? – $498K

Closes 2026-05-30

The dynamics of object representations in the human brain. The human brain's ability to effortlessly recognise and categorise objects enables effective behavioural responses in complex everyday environments. Despite the apparent efficiency of this process, it is still unknown how the brain solves object recognition. This project capitalises on cutting-edge advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience to resolve the spatiotemporal dynamics of object processing in the human brain. The outcomes will be a step change in our understanding of the nature and development of the multi-dimensional space underpinning neural object processing. This will ultimately facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders across the lifespan and accelerate the development of intelligent machines.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 5202 - Biological Psychology. Lead: Dr Tijl Grootswagers

Macquarie University

? – $441K

Closes 2026-05-30

Crisis as Opportunity: Societal Change in Early Middle Kingdom Egypt. The project aims to address political and social shifts in the ancient Egyptian early Middle Kingdom c. 4000 years ago. For the first time, and with exclusive study concessions from the government of Egypt, material data of the two most significant cemeteries of the period will be investigated. The project not only expects to generate new knowledge about human interaction during crisis but will utilise interdisciplinary research strategies to investigate the emerging opportunities, such as social mobility, for individuals from all strata of society. It will provide significant benefits such as understanding the mechanics of post-crisis political leadership and the cultural impact that enabled the classical period of ancient Egypt to emerge.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 2101 - Archaeology. Lead: Prof Naguib Kanawati

Victorian Government

$1 – $2K

Closes 2026-05-30

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RMIT University

? – $236K

Closes 2026-05-30

Ageing in and through Data: What data can tell us about ageing. As the first generation to age in a data-rich world, this project asks: What insights can data (i.e. computational information) give us about ageing, ageing well and ageing in place (i.e. at home)? And what escapes data and why? By taking up the UN Healthy Ageing challenge, this project combines ethnography, data sensing and creative practice to provide insights—opportunities and limitations—into how we might age well and in place. Expected outcomes include data visualisation, ethnographic mobile storytelling, art exhibition, codesign workshops and symposium. These outcomes will activate public debate and provide alternative futures for ageing well in a data-saturated world.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4701 - Communication and Media Studies. Lead: Prof Larissa Hjorth

The University of New South Wales

? – $467K

Closes 2026-05-30

Towards Real-world Continual Learning on Unrestricted Task Steams. This project aims to enable machines to continually learn without forgetting and accumulate knowledge from the sequential data streams containing diverse tasks. This project expects to advance the continual learning to unrestricted real-world task steams that are long-term and complex and promote artificial intelligence toward the human-level intelligence that can automatically evolve during interaction with the world. Expected outcomes of this project include the paradigm-shifting continual learning framework and techniques for handling unrestricted task steams in real-world scenarios. They will benefit society and the economy nationally and internationally by enhancing the applicability of artificial intelligence.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4611 - Machine Learning. Lead: Dr Dong Gong

Monash University

? – $417K

Closes 2026-05-30

Tackling the computational bottleneck in precision particle physics. This project aims to deliver a breakthrough technique in theoretical-computational particle physics, with significant potential for high-precision applications. The project targets some of the most advanced and resource-intensive calculations in particle physics, which are widely used but currently limited by extremely high computational resource requirements. This project expects to develop a novel approach that will vastly reduce the computational complexity while at the same time improving their accuracy relative to the current global state of the art. Expected outcomes include the new methodology itself as well as a full-fledged and open-access simulation code based on it, which should be highly efficient.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0202 - Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics. Lead: Prof Peter Skands

University of Technology Sydney

? – $668K

Closes 2026-05-30

Seeing the Bio-Nano "Talk" in the brain via real-time multiplex tracking. This project aims to develop new knowledge and smart tools that have the potential to greatly improve brain research. The blood-brain-barrier is the major physiological barrier that protects the brain from environmental toxins, bacteria and viruses, but limits the effectiveness of nanoparticle-based brain imaging agents. Expected outcomes of this project include a better understanding of the mechanisms that allow nanoparticles to penetrate the blood-brain-barrier, as well as improving brain imaging. Benefits of the project include the commercialisation of technologies and smarl tools developed in this projetct, and establishment of a new Australian biotechnology company that exports brain-imaging technologies to the world.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4003 - Biomedical Engineering. Lead: Prof Bingyang SHI

The University of New South Wales

? – $514K

Closes 2026-05-30

Did ocean circulation changes build the Antarctic ice sheet? The evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet, from its beginning 34 million years ago (Ma) until today, is critical to our understanding of future climate change. This project aims to improve climate and ocean model simulations of the early Oligocene (30 Ma) and middle Miocene (15 Ma), using higher resolution and more accurate paleogeography than has previously been done. Expected outcomes include improvements to paleoclimate reconstructions, better constraints on future climate change, and a better understanding of the impact of ocean eddies on Antarctic climate. These outcomes should strengthen Australia’s long-term program of climate modelling, and enable more effective climate adaptation, mitigation and risk management.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 0406 - Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience. Lead: Dr David Hutchinson

The University of New South Wales

? – $402K

Closes 2026-05-30

Designing Single-atom catalysts for Renewable Waste Conversion to Urea. This DECRA aims to realise the direct electrochemical conversion of waste resources using renewable energy to generate urea at ambient conditions. By designing impurity-tolerant single atom catalysts and unearthing their structure-activity relationships, the utilisation of flue gas and wastewater will be materialised. This will advance our understanding in the field as current energy conversion reactions require pure feedstocks. Expected outcomes from the program is envisioned to lead to deployment of scalable decentralised modes of green urea production (substituting imports), and the knowledge transferrable to other areas of Australia’s emerging hydrogen economy, extending the scope of renewable Power-to-X to realise a circular economy.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4016 - Materials Engineering. Lead: Dr Rahman Daiyan