The Ian Potter Foundation Sustainable - Environment Grants - EOI APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

The Ian Potter Foundation- Sustainable - Environment Fund EOI is now open

FUNDER

The Ian Potter Foundation

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Ian Potter Foundation – Sustainable – Environment Fund

BRIEF DETAILS

The Environment funding area supports ambitious and transformative environmental initiatives, including applied research.  Those initiatives should seek to manage better our natural resources and preserve threatened biodiversity and ecosystems in the face of challenges such as land degradation, limited water resources, invasive species, and climate change. The Foundation is interested in applications that are strategically important, nationally significant, and collaborative.

The Foundation prioritise projects that employ several of the following approaches:

• Work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
• Enhance the capacity of the environment sector.
• Take an ecosystem or landscape-scale approach.
• Adopt a community-based approach, where relevant.
• Develop or incorporate a strong scientific evidence base.
• Develop translational frameworks and/or strategies that can be adapted and implemented widely.
• Promote sustainable resource management.
• For research projects, preference will be given to projects that engage early or mid-career researchers.  Such projects to be strongly supported by their host organisation and be strategically aligned to the institution’s mission.

IMPORTANT

·  Applicants must first speak with the Ian Potter Foundation’s Program Manager Lauren Monaghan on 03 96111591 before submitting an Expression of Interest (EOI) to be considered eligible to apply. After the initial conversation, the Program Manager will invite suitable candidates to apply for the EOI.

·  Prior to applying, please ensure that you have identified other potential funders. The Foundation is unlikely to fund 100% of a project cost.

·  The Foundation only considers multi-year grant applications in excess of $100,000 in this program area.

·   The Foundation prioritises applications with evidence of collaboration, plans for leverage, and transformative potential.

UNIVERSITY LIMITS AND EOI PROCESS

A maximum of THREE applications may be submitted by an organisation in a given grant round.  The MRO will therefore run an internal EOI process if the number exceeds the allowed limit for the EOI submission to the Foundation.  The internal EOI panel will select the applications for submission to the Foundation.

Applicants must complete the attached MRO EOI form and email the completed form with CV of the PCI only  (maximum two pages) to  mro-applications@monash.edu by 10 am Monday, 22 March 2021.  Only those applicants who have been advised by the Foundation that they are eligible to apply and invited to submit an EOI should complete the MRO EOI form.

Please note that ONLY the applications selected for submission through the internal EOI process will need a corresponding Pure record.

KEY DATES

ACTION	DATE
EOIs due to MRO	10 am Monday, 22 March 2021
EOI result announced	Friday, 26 March 2021
Pure record to be sent for Pre-Approval	Monday, 29 March 2021
EOI application due to funder	Thursday 1 April 2021

 

LINKS TO FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information about this program including sample EOI form and guidelines can be found at the https://www.ianpotter.org.au/what-we-support/environment-and-conservation/.  Please contact the Ian Potter Foundation Program Manager regarding the area of objectives and read the funding guidelines carefully to ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria and program area objectives before you apply.

 

Please contact us at mro-applications@monash.edu if you have any queries about this funding opportunity.