The Ageing Well National Science Challenge is researching how to sustain health and well-being as people age, enabling all New Zealanders to reach their full potential into the later years of life.
The aim of the Better Start Challenge is to improve the potential for young New Zealanders to have healthy and successful lives.
The Government is investing up to $31m (excluding GST over 5 years in He tipu ka hua investment programme (formally He tipu ka hua investment fund). The funding is for Māori-led research programmes that generate new research outcomes and expand the capacity of Māori communities and researchers to harness the Science, Innovation, and Technology system (SI&T).
Strategic Science Investment Fund (SSIF) Programmes provides an active partnership between government and research organisations to deliver government science priorities.
The 2027 Transition Research Fund ensures we continue to support great ideas from inception all the way through to the benefits they deliver for New Zealand. The fund supports high quality foundational and applied research across all disciplines that deliver impact aligned with national priorities.
Te Pūnaha Hihiko: Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund invests in the development of skilled people and organisations that plan to undertake, or are undertaking, research that supports the themes and outcomes of our Vision Mātauranga policy.
The Regional Research Institute (RRI) initiative established new, independently governed, private or private not-for-profit regional research institutes.
Funding commercialisation projects from publicly funded research.
The Partnerships Scheme supports high-quality research aimed at increasing the competitiveness and sustainability of New Zealand’s economy.
All essential documents can be found in the table below.
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