URGENT: NHMRC Project Grant 'Grant Proposal' Template Margins

The Monash Research Office recently sought advice from the NHMRC in relation to the margins of the Grant Proposal template. The current version of the template that is available from the NHMRC website does not meet the formatting requirements stipulated in in section 10.3.3 of the NHMRC Funding Rules 2016, as the top and bottom page margins of this template are set to 1cm instead of the required 2cm. 

The previous version of the template that was available from the NHMRC website in December when the funding rules were released for this scheme was compliant with the 2cm margin formatting requirement.

The Monash Research Office received the following instructions from the NHMRC in relation to this issue:

"I can confirm that the NHMRC will accept applications submitted on either of the two grants proposal templates, which have been available on the NHMRC web page for NHMRC Project Grant applications in 2016. Please also note, applicants who use the Grant Proposal template in its current format will not be disadvantaged. Applicants are advised that they should not alter the Grant Proposal template as by doing so may make their application ineligible."

Recommendation

The Monash Research Office is cognisant that these two version of the template are available and being used and our compliance check is checking for both cases. As NHMRC are accepting both templates, please use either and we will check compliance on both, however as per standard NHMRC rules do not make any other changes to the template as these may make the proposal ineligible. If you have used the first 2cm margin template it is fine to keep your proposal in this - especially if you have embedded figures etc that may take considerable time to reformat or change.

Please contact us if you have any questions.