By purpose · Research and development
Research and development grants in Australia
Australian grant programs for R&D projects, commercialisation and applied research, from the Commonwealth, every state and territory and local councils, with the closing month on the front of every entry.
- 243programs on record
- 29open now
- 22closing inside 60 days
- 7jurisdictions
Counted from the catalogue on 24 Oct 2026
November 2026 is the busiest month in this lane, at 20 of the 27 research and development programs with a published closing date inside the next year.
Who writes the cheque for research and development projects
A netball club and an exporter are both after funding and they should be looking in completely different places. Here is where this one is.
This is state and territory money.
64% of research and development programs here are run by a state or territory agency rather than by a council or the Commonwealth, so the department in your own jurisdiction is the place to start.
- 156State and territory64%
- 87Commonwealth36%
Who signs the cheques
- NSW Health25
- Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer24
- Australian Government23
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)15
- Cancer Institute NSW10
- Department of Energy and Economic Diversification8
- CSIRO7
- Sound NSW (Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport)5
78 separate funders run at least one research and development program in this catalogue. The largest holds 10% of the lane on its own.
Closing soonest
The soonest deadlines in this lane. 22 research and development programs close inside the next 60 days.
- Closing this weekAU2026 NHMRC-GACD: Multisectoral ApproachesNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Amount not statedCloses October 2026
- Open nowAU2026 Clinical Trials and Cohort StudiesNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Amount not statedCloses November 2026
- Open nowVICAmazon Science – Amazon Research AwardsDefence Science InstituteAmount not statedCloses November 2026
- Open nowAUMRFF - Australian Brain Cancer Mission - 2026 Brain Cancer Research Grant OpportunityNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Amount not statedCloses November 2026
- Open nowAUMRFF – PHCRI – 2026 Primary Health Care Research Grant OpportunityNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Amount not statedCloses November 2026
- Open nowAUNHMRC Centres of Research Excellence 2027National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)Amount not statedCloses November 2026
Also open
Open programs and ongoing intakes, in the same order: soonest deadline first. Colour down the left margin is how long is left.
Opening soon, or no date published
Rounds that have not opened yet, and programs whose funder has published no closing date. Neither is filled in with a guess.
- People & Capability ProgramAgriFutures AustraliaUp to $25kNovember 2026AU
- 2026 Grant Process EOIYarra Valley Community FoundationDate not publishedVIC
- AMPC Awards of Excellence 2025Australian Meat Processor CorporationDate not publishedAU
- Animals & Environment GrantsEquity Trustees$5k to $20kDate not publishedAU
- Apply for funding – Research & Innovation projectsWine AustraliaDate not publishedAU
- Apply for Healthway fundingHealthwayDate not publishedWA
- ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship for Green MetalsUNSW Sydney (TRaCE Trailblazer)Date not publishedNSW
- Australian Rural Leadership ProgramAustralian Wool InnovationDate not publishedAU
- Australian Wine Future FundWine AustraliaDate not publishedAU
- AWI Flystrike Extension ProgramAustralian Wool InnovationDate not publishedAU
- AWI Sponsorship ApplicationAustralian Wool InnovationDate not publishedAU
- Business grantsSmall Business Development Corporation (WA)Date not publishedWA
- Collaborative Research GrantsDefence Science InstituteDate not publishedVIC
- Collie Futures FundSouth West Development CommissionUp to $100kDate not publishedWA
- Community Grant RoundGeelong Community FoundationUp to $1.8mDate not publishedVIC
- Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grantsRMIT UniversityDate not publishedVIC
- Create a Fund with NRCFNorthern Rivers Community FoundationUp to $50kDate not publishedNSW
- CSIRO Industry PhD (iPhD) programCSIRODate not publishedAU
- Early-Stage Seed FundTRaCE TrailblazerDate not publishedAU
- Education and Workforce Development ProgramMinerals Research Institute of Western AustraliaDate not publishedWA
- Farm Forestry - Northern Inland Forestry Investment GroupRDA Northern InlandDate not publishedNSW
- Food and Beverage AcceleratorUniversity of Queensland (Food and Beverage Accelerator)Date not publishedQLD
- Funding PillarsThe Ian Potter FoundationDate not publishedAU
- Funding PrinciplesThe Ian Potter FoundationDate not publishedAU
- Funding StrategyTim Fairfax Family FoundationDate not publishedAU
- Generation STEM Links ProgramCSIRODate not publishedAU
- Grant Eligibility and CriteriaRainbow Giving Australia$5k to $20kDate not publishedAU
- Grant LevelsGandel FoundationUp to $40kDate not publishedAU
- Grants and funding for tourism businessesQueensland GovernmentDate not publishedQLD
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Every research and development program here tells you the month. A trial tells you the day.
126 of the 243 research and development programs in this catalogue carry a closing date the funder published, and every one of them shows its month on this page and on its own. The exact day, the funder's own closing time, the link to their application page and a countdown that stays right come with a 7 day free trial.
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Oct
1 closes
Nov
20 close
Dec
1 closes
1 research and development program closes in October 2026. Every square is a day you cannot read yet.
Crossings
Your project is rarely only one of these.
80 of the 243 research and development programs in this catalogue are also filed under health, because that is how the funder describes them. Each of these is the same programs seen from a different door.
- Health80
- Innovation79
- Business growth73
- Community66
- Training and skills66
- Arts and culture60
- Environment54
- Digital53
Counted as programs carrying both categories. The catalogue never adds these up, because a hall upgrade filed under three purposes is one program and not three.
About Australian research and development grants
Australian grant programs for R&D projects, commercialisation and applied research, pulled together from the Commonwealth, all 8 states and territories and local councils across the country. 243 programs are categorised under research and development in this catalogue and 29 of them are open right now. Open programs closing soonest come first; closed rounds stay on the list, because most Australian grant programs run again and the alert list tells you the night one reopens.
This is state and territory money. 64% of research and development programs here are run by a state or territory agency rather than by a council or the Commonwealth, so the department in your own jurisdiction is the place to start. The largest single funder of research and development projects in this catalogue is NSW Health at 25 programs, and 78 separate funders run at least one.
126 of these 243 programs carry a closing date the funder published, and this page shows the month for every one of them. 27 of them close inside the next year, with November 2026 the busiest month at 20. "Not stated" against an amount means the funder published no figure, and a program with no closing date means the funder published no deadline: neither is filled in with a guess. Where an amount is published, most research and development grants in this catalogue sit between $10k to $9m.
A category earns a page of its own at 25 programs, and the categories overlap on purpose. A council program upgrading a netball court is capital works and sport and community at the same time, because that is how the funder describes it and how three different people will look for it, so this page's count and the other categories' counts do not add up to the 4,049 programs in the catalogue, and this site never adds them up.
Confirm every detail on the funder's own page before you apply. Every program here has a page of its own showing the funder, the amount, who can apply and the date it was last checked. Everything closing in the next 60 days, the directory by state and territory, or every category we track.