Please see below for some key 2023 dates for HRC funding applicants to note.

Applicant response (rebuttal)

2023 Project and Programme Grants

The applicant response period for 2023 Project and Programme applications opens at 1pm, 1 March 2023 and closes at 1pm, 14 March 2023. The applicant response process is an opportunity for applicants to respond to comments and questions raised by external reviewers. The applicant response, together with reviewer reports, will be made available to the assessing committee.

Funding round opening and closing dates to take note of in 2023

2023 Ngā Kanohi Kitea

The following opportunities will be available in this round:

Development Grants; Training Grants; Knowledge Mobilisation Grants; and Project Grants

Open date: 1pm, 14 February 2023
Application due date: 1pm, 21 March 2023

2023 Health Delivery Research Investment Round

The following opportunities will be available in this round:

Health Delivery Research Project Grants

Open date: 1pm, 15 February 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 15 March 2023
Expression of Interest (EOI) application due date: 1pm, 5 April 2023
EOI outcome notification: 14 June 2023
Invited full application due date: 1pm, 3 August 2023

Health Delivery Research Activation Grants; and Health Delivery Research Career Development Awards: Round 1

Open date: 1pm, 15 February 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 15 March 2023
Application due date: 1pm, 12 April 2023

Health Delivery Research Activation Grants; and Health Delivery Research Career Development Awards: Round 2

Open date: 1pm, 4 July 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 3 August 2023
Application due date: 1pm, 31 August 2023

2024 Career Development Awards

The following opportunities will be available in this round:

Māori Health Career Development Awards

Open date: 1pm, 6 June 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 25 July 2023
Application due date: 1pm, 25 July 2023

Pacific Health Career Development Awards

Open date: 1pm, 6 June 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 25 July 2023
Application due date: 1pm, 25 July 2023

General Career Development Awards

Open date: 1pm, 6 June 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 4 July 2023
Application due date: 1pm, 4 July 2023

2024 Project Grants

The following opportunities will be available in this round:

Rangahau Hauora Māori Project Grants; Pacific Project Grants, and General Project Grants

Open date: 1pm, 7 June 2023
Registration due date: 1pm, 5 July 2023
Expression of Interest (EOI) application due date: 1pm, 12 July 2023
EOI outcome notification: 3 October 2023
Invited full application open date: 1pm, 3 October 2023
Invited full application due date: 1pm, 15 November 2023

We recommend that you refer to the HRC Gateway funding calendar for updates and additional round information. Here you will find the upcoming opening, closing and results dates for our various funding opportunities, which is updated as more become available. By clicking on the name of the individual round you are interested in, you will be provided with more information, including eligibility criteria, a brief description of the application process, and who to contact if you have any questions.

Over 2020-2022 the HRC has made good progress towards aligning our funding mechanisms with the aims of the New Zealand Health Research Strategy and the New Zealand Health Research Prioritisation Framework, and to reflect our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and achieving health equity.

To date, we have redesigned research opportunities in the following areas: Health Delivery research, the Independent Research Organisation Fund, and Ngā Kanohi Kitea Community Advancement Fund. Work continues on strengthening our ability to identify and fund health research in areas of greatest need and opportunity for Aotearoa New Zealand through redesign of our targeted mission-led investment and partnerships.

In 2023/2024 our redesign work will focus on how we better develop, grow, and retain a thriving health research workforce, and how we better identify and support excellent and impactful investigator-led research. This will include re-working our existing investment framework both in terms of funding opportunities and the processes that support these opportunities.

These changes will advance our strategic goals and complement the direction taken by the broader science sector as part of Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways.

The purpose of the redesign is to ensure we are:

• strongly aligned with strategic goals and priorities (Te Tiriti, equity, Māori health advancement, health research workforce)
• fit-for-purpose and future-focused
• delivering best value and greatest impact for our stakeholders
• sustainable, and able to thrive within current funding envelopes.
  

We will communicate changes to opportunities well ahead of time. New initiatives will start to be introduced in the latter half of 2023. Opportunities that the sector usually expect to open in the first half of 2023 will remain unchanged, including Māori health research and Pacific health research opportunities.