Outcome letters for the below funding opportunities will be sent to host organisations, or to researchers who don’t have a Research Office, on Friday 17 December, and will be visible on Gateway on Monday 20 December.

• 2021 Health Delivery Research Activation Grants – Round 2
• 2021 Health Delivery Research Career Development Awards – Round 2
• 2021 Health Sector Research Collaboration Grants
  

Please note that the later outcome dates for these rounds is the result of application timeline extensions in response to COVID-19 and its impact on the research community this year.

As COVID-19 continues to cause disruption for health research and researchers, the HRC is working to identify ways we can provide flexibility without compromising the integrity of research proposal assessment or delaying the provision of funding. For invited full stage Project 2022 applications, we have extended the deadline for submission by two weeks to 1 December 2021.

We are also aware that researchers may encounter delays in gaining the formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from subcontractor organisations (e.g. DHBs), which the HRC requires to support proposals where the subcontract value is greater than $50,000. For this 2022 round, if delays with the MoU are encountered, the application can be submitted with letters of support from personnel on the subcontract (all personnel, including time-only), and these will be considered equivalent to an MoU throughout the proposal assessment. We recommend that such applicants send the MoU to the HRC as soon as possible, as MoUs are required at the contracting stage, and we wish to avoid extending contract execution deadlines or project start dates as a result of delays with MoUs.

Any questions or concerns related to the above, or other requirements for full stage applications for the Project 2022 round, can be directed to info@hrc.govt.nz.