Grants & Opportunities

Financial assistance for students requiring support to access SCEGGS education, covering full or partial tuition. Means-tested. Currently targeting Indigenous Scholarship Program for Primary School.

Funding for documentary films at the post-production stage, with a preference for films previously supported by a Production grant. Requires a rough cut, a known pathway to audience, partnerships in place, and a realistic and targeted outreach plan. Grants may also be offered to a film’s key partner organisation. Applications are accepted on a year-round basis.

An open grant round where grants are directed by donors in conjunction with the Foundation team, with an online portal for opportunities.

Funding for research projects related to musculoskeletal disorders.

Scholarships for PhD candidates pursuing research in musculoskeletal disorders.

Grant program in partnership with ACE Radio 2AY, likely for local community projects.

A grant program linked to the Give500 initiative, encouraging collective giving.

Tour de Cure offers grants to support groundbreaking cancer research, prevention programs, and local cancer support services across Australia, aiming to accelerate a cancer-free future.

Fellowship funding for educational programs

Funding for documentary outreach and impact campaigns

Fundraising for the ongoing annual operating costs of the Dr. Julie Zrna Centre, which provides patient accommodation for those undergoing radiation treatment.

Financial support for parents to pursue therapies or paths for their children with disabilities that are not supported by traditional disability funds or adequately covered by private health insurance.

Fellowship supporting researchers studying Antarctic environments

An annual grant to support the creation, development, exhibiting, or staging of creative work that inspires, motivates, and challenges awareness and thinking about human rights, social justice, Aboriginal sovereignty, and environmental sustainability.

Minor grants of up to $2,000 for projects aligning with the foundation's objectives.

Funds research initiatives aimed at finding a treatment or cure for KAND.

Funds for student placements within the wool industry, supporting practical experience and industry engagement.

The Foundation, with sponsor Bondor Metecno, assists the Gallery in delivering this exhibition. The award celebrates diverse, high-calibre talent of artists living and working in the Northern Rivers, Tweed, and Gold Coast regions, including Bundjalung (First Nations) and emerging artist categories.

Heat transfer and fluid flow in geomaterials: Physics-inspired AI framework. Processes involving fluid flow or heat transfer are of critical importance in engineering applications (e.g., in dams, geothermal systems, oil & gas production). Though largely overlooked, microstructural features control these processes in geomaterials. This project aims to exploit advances in high-resolution 4D imaging to extract essential microstructural information to: 1) identify new parameters that better capture pore and particle properties, connectivities and pathways, and 2) develop advanced predictive analytics tools. This will improve fundamental understanding of the link between microstructure and fluid and heat flows at the engineering scale, and provide predictive tools to reduce risk and costs to industry.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0905 - Civil Engineering. Lead: Prof Guillermo Narsilio

Sustainable Hydrogen Production from Used Water. The project aims to address the pressing challenge of water scarcity in hydrogen production by developing an innovative approach of using used water as the feed for water electrolysis. The project will result in an in-depth understanding of the impacts of water impurities in used water on the performance and durability of water electrolysers, and develop guidelines for the design of highly durable water electrolysers and the operation and upgrade of existing wastewater treatment plants. The project will advance the practical applications of water electrolysis for scalable and sustainable hydrogen production and help Australia secure a leading position in the global emerging hydrogen economy.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0912 - Materials Engineering. Lead: Prof Xiwang Zhang

Iron-based high-temperature topological superconductors. Because of topological non-trivial nature and zero resistance, topological superconductors are very promising in the application of future electronic devices. This project aims to achieve intrinsic and robust topological superconductors at high-temperature by engineering iron-based superconductors via precisely controlling the defects, chemical doping, interface and substrates. Expected outcomes of this project will include high-temperature iron-based topological superconductors as new material platforms for the study of exotic properties of topological superconductivity and future application in high-temperature fault-tolerant quantum computing. . Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 0912 - Materials Engineering. Lead: Dr Zhi Li

Constitutional Design & Democratic Resilience . Democracy is under stress worldwide. Both new and longstanding are seeing waves of democratic erosion. In many cases, this erosion is also taking new and more subtle forms, which are harder to detect than outright coups or suspensions of democracy – that is, they involve a form of “abusive constitutional change” that uses existing legal democratic norms and processes to subvert democracy from within. This Project will investigate the nature and scope of this problem of abusive constitutional change, as well as potential solutions through constitutional design. It will offer new theoretical insights for the field of comparative constitutional studies, and practical insights for policymakers in Australia and globally.. Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 1801 - Law. Lead: Prof Rosalind Dixon

Domestic and Family violence and border-related harm. This project aims to explore how Australia's migration system intersects with the experience of domestic and family violence for temporary visa holders. By drawing on the accounts of former temporary visa holders via interviews in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and India, and examining the migration system and processes evident in formal accounts including coronial findings and sentencing judgements, the project expects to generate new knowledge about connections between migration systems and domestic and family violence. This should provide significant benefits by laying the ground for reform and recommendations to support policy makers and stakeholders more broadly to create better conditions for women’s safety.. Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 1602 - Criminology. Lead: Prof Marie Segrave

A Bayesian Approach to Distributed Estimation for Multi-Object Systems. This project aims to develop new signal processing techniques that facilitate autonomous technologies for environmental perception, with the ability to efficiently process large data volumes from multiple sensing modalities. Rapid advances in sensors and networks have led to a digital data deluge, from which extracting useful information presents new technological challenges and opportunities. To address this development, this project seeks to develop new distributed solutions for statistical estimation, which are specifically designed for dynamic systems with multiple object states, and are inherently scalable and robust. The potential benefits include new technologies for smart cities, autonomous infrastructure, and digital productivity.. Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 0906 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Lead: Prof Ba Tuong Vo

AUSLearn: AUtomated Sample Learning for Object Recognition. This project aims to enable computers to learn how to effectively use training samples for object recognition. Training sample is the only source used by computers to learn recognising objects. This project creates a new research direction that will enable the first full exploration of the power of samples. The aims will be enabled by leveraging the recent advances in reinforcement learning, fast training algorithms, and by developing novel deep learning algorithms. The new algorithms will benefit a wide range of applications, e.g. to effectively use car crash training samples for accurately identifying potential road crashes in transport and to effectively use rare medical imaging training data for robustly diagnosing diseases in health.. Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships. Field: 0801 - Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing. Lead: Prof Wanli Ouyang