NHMRC Project Grants (PG13)

NHMRC Project Grants (PG13) closed on Wednesday 14 March 2012.

Key Dates

All researchers intending on submitting an application in this round should initiate an application in RGMS as soon as practical now that the system is open. This enables the RSO and GMO to track your progress in the round and ensure that you have all the strategic (RSO), eligibility and compliance (GMO) support you need.

Commencing your NHMRC Project Grant Application

STEP 1: Review the important deadlines as per above
 
STEP 2: Ensure you have a valid login for RGMS (register for new account if required)
 
STEP 3: Review the Guidelines and Documentation provided by the GMO and NHMRC (see below)
 
STEP 4: Get Support and/or Attend Training (see below)
 
STEP 5: Start your application
 
When you do commence your application, be sure to:

• click ‘new’ and select the initiative Project not Project Grant
• select ‘University of New South Wales’ as the Administering Institution
• say ‘yes’ to RAO Edit Access (see below for details)

RAO Edit Access

Application Toolkit

NHMRC Documentation

• NHMRC Project Grants Scheme Overview
• NHMRC PG13 Funding Rules
• NHMRC Advice and Instructions to Applicants
  
• Guide to Peer Review Areas for Project Grants funding commencing in 2013
  
• Fields of Research (FoR) and Broad Research Area (BRA)
• Criteria for Health and Medical Research of Indigenous Australians
• Australian Standard research Classifications and NHMRC Keywords and Phrases
• Budget mechanism for Project Grant funding commencing in 2013
• RGMS Offline Forms
• NHMRC Direct and Indirect (non-allowable) Research Costs

RGMS Instructions

GMO Documentation

• Background and Research Plan Template

Compliance Advice Templates:

For researchers:

• PG13 Compliance Advice Template 

For GMO staff:

• PG13 Compliance Advice Template (corresponding to hard copy)
• PG13 Investigator Details Checklist

Investigator Endorsement Email Template

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) (updated 2 March 2012)

GMO advice re. NHMRC allowable and non-allowable costs

NHMRC Multi-Institutional Agreement Form

Investigator Endorsement

UNSW requires the endorsement of all researchers prior to submitting your grant to the NHMRC.  This is an absolute requirement.
 
Previously, all members of the research team were required to login to RGMS and certify their involvement in the application through the RGMS Certification process. This requirement has now been removed and only the CIA will undertake the certification process via RGMS with other CIs endorsing the application via email. Copies of these emails must be forwarded to and retained by the GMO. It is the requirement of CIA to ensure all members of their research team certify their involvement in the application by obtaining emails from all members by the time of application submission.
 
CIA is required to collate email responses from all other CIs involved in the proposal and submit them to the GMO in the one email with all sign-offs attached.
 
The NHMRC reserves the right to seek evidence from the Administering Organisation to support the certification of Proposals. UNSW is also subject to external audit. We therefore treat the submission of all signoffs as a mandatory requirement for submission.
 
Please use the Investigator Endorsement Email Template to send to your other CIs to obtain their sign-off.

Support

Researchers wishing to receive strategic support/advice for their NHMRC Project Grant Proposals should register with Debbie Docherty (d [dot] docherty [at] unsw [dot] edu [dot] au) ASAP and provide ‘Part B-PR Proposed Research’ and other sections they would like strategic advice on of their proposal prior to Wednesday 8 February 2012.

The Grants Management Office undertakes a compliance review of all applications. Applicants will be assigned a compliance adviser in early February. Your compliance adviser will work with you to ensure your application adheres to the Scheme Funding Rules and Instructions to Applicants and can assist with compliance, eligibility and budget queries as well as provide advice on completing your application within RGMS and the overall submission process.

In the meantime you can direct all queries about the scheme to mygrants [dot] gmo [at] unsw [dot] edu [dot] au. All queries will be responded to by our dedicated Project Grants adviser on a daily basis.

This page will also be updated with information and FAQs throughout the round. 

Please view the website or contact your Faculty for details of support available for you at the local level.

For NHMRC latest advice and Important Alerts subscribe to the following: NHMRC Tracker; NHMRC Media; UNSW Grants News.

To be kept up to date with alerts throughout the round subscribe to Grant News by emailing  grantsnews [at] unsw [dot] edu [dot] au with 'subscribe grant-news' in the body of the message.