Funding Outcomes

Round 8: VNI Project Funding via NHMRC 2010 Project Grant Funding Round, December 2009 - Applications Close 17 March 2010

  • Neurotrauma research applications that were not successful in receiving funding from the NHMRC have the opportunity for their NHMRC applications to be considered by the VNI.

Round 7: VNI Project Funding via NHMRC 2009 Project Grant Funding Round, November 2009 - Evaluation Ongoing

  • Neurotrauma research applications that were not successful in receiving funding from the NHMRC have the opportunity for their NHMRC applications to be considered by the VNI.

Round 6: ONF/VNI Grants, July 2009 – Evaluation Ongoing

  • The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) and the Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative (VNI) offered joint funding for grants in order to enhance research and health outcomes for the international neurotrauma community and leverage the respective research expertise in Ontario and Victoria. The inaugural ONF/VNI Grants allow Ontarians and Victorians to work together on research themed activities that advance neurotrauma research internationally.

Round 5: Fellowships, February 2008 – November 2008

  • The fifth round of VNI funding again focused on capacity building with a request for Fellowship applications across four categories: Training; Early Career Practitioner; Early Career Research and Senior Practitioner.

Round 4: Program Grants, February 2008 – December 2008

  • The fourth round requested a call for research programs to be conducted in highly targeted areas. The purpose of the program approach was to fund large, multidisciplinary programs of research conducted by multiple institutions based in Victoria, interstate and overseas. Twenty-five Expressions of Interest were received. A maximum of $5 million is offered per program with a total of $15 million earmarked for this round. An innovative approach to the evaluation and development of these grants was undertaken. Each application passing the expression of interest stage received up to $10,000 to enable the researchers to convene a workshop and prepare a detailed funding submission. Over one hundred and ninety individual researchers from one hundred and nine research organisations were involved in twelve workshops, including fifteen international and forty interstate experts. The workshops produced twelve high-quality full funding applications. The Minister for the TAC Tim Holding was pleased to announce the award of four Program Grants involving over 30 different research departments of universities and hospitals in Victoria, across Australia, and in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Round 3: Fellowships and Skill Development Awards, August 2007 – May 2008

  • Round three was the first capacity building funding round aimed at developing research capacity within the field through Fellowship and Skill Development Award opportunities. Fellowships were offered across four categories including Training, Early Career Practitioner, Early Career Research and Senior Researcher. A total of eight Fellowships and ten Skill Development Awards were allocated.

Round 2: Project Grants, November 2006 – October 2007

  • The second funding round was focused on clinical and rehabilitation interventions in both brain and spinal cord injury. This round had an overwhelming response with ninety-two applications received of which twelve projects were funded.

Round 1: Project Grants, December 2005 – August 2006

  • The first round of research funding was an open call for applications in the broad area of neurotrauma research. Fifty-five expressions of interest were received with a total of twenty-two projects funded. The projects encompass a broad spectrum of neuroscience, trauma and rehabilitation research from basic biomedical science to studies of new rehabilitation interventions.