2026 Lillian de Lissa Research Partnership Grant

Administering Organisation (AO)

The organisation which will be responsible for the administration of the grant if the application is approved for funding. This includes the management of grant funds, completion of acquittals and other reporting requirements of the grant agreement. 

Applicant

The Administering Organisation or the Principal Investigator.

Assessment criteria

The indicators against which applications

will be considered. These criteria are used to assess the merits

of applications and to determine application rankings.

Eligibility criteria

The mandatory criteria which must be met to qualify for a grant.

Grant Agreement

The agreement entered into by the Public Trustee and an Administering

Organisation when an application from that organisation is

approved for grant funding.

In-kind contributions

A contribution of goods, services, materials and/or time to the

project from an individual or organisation (adopted from the ARC Discovery Program Grant Guidelines – Discovery Projects (2024 edition))

Lead Representative

Nominated leader from a Partner Organisation

Partner Organisation(s) (PO)

An early childhood education service or group of services, or organisation that is not an Administering Organisation

that contributes to the research project.

Principal Investigator (PI)

The Principal Investigator named on the application will be the Project Leader. The Project Leader must have a demonstrated capacity to manage the project.

Value for money

‘value for money’ is a judgement based on the grant application

representing an efficient, effective, economical and ethical use of

public resources determined from a variety of considerations:

merit of the proposal, risk, cost and expected contribution to

outcome achievement (adopted from the ARC Discovery Program Grant Guidelines – Discovery Projects (2024 edition))

We

The Lillian de Lissa Trust Board

You

The Administering Organisation