The Hermon Slade Foundation supports activities that aim to improve systems of managing land, water, plants and animals in ways which will enhance the productivity and quality of food, fisheries, plants and forests, while simultaneously conserving the natural environment, preserving biodiversity, avoiding pollution of soils and water, and enhancing human welfare.

The Foundation typically provides project grants up to A$30,000 per year for up to three years. Grants are awarded to Australian institutions for activities within Australia. Occasionally activities located in countries of the south west Pacific may also be funded.

Eligibility

The project must be undertaken within Australia or countries of the south-west Pacific region, under the umbrella of an Australian university or other appropriate Australian institution.

The project is in the biological or biophysical sciences or has application in those areas, as exemplified in projects described on this web site, and is not medical research.

Projects that aim to improve systems of managing land, water, plants and animals in ways that will enhance the productivity and quality of food, fisheries, plants and forests, while simultaneously conserving the natural environment, preserving biodiversity, avoiding pollution of soils and water, and enhancing human welfare are particularly favoured.

The project must form an identifiable element of work that would not be undertaken without the support of the Foundation. If the project is a sub-project of a larger investigation, it must be sufficiently discrete for the outputs and outcomes to be independently evaluated. Projects that may be seminal to subsequent larger grants from other sources are attractive to the Foundation.

Project leaders may submit only one application to each round and may not hold more than one grant concurrently. Applications from students as project leaders are not accepted.

Project leaders are expected to devote an appropriate amount of time to projects supported by the Foundation.

Funding is limited to no more than three years and A$30,000 (ex GST) annually.  Salaries of technicians and research assistants may be supported, but grants do not cover the salaries of scientific research staff or stipends of students.

Administrative costs are not funded, but HSF grants may be assessed by Universities as Category 1 Australian Competitive Grant Income.

The components of the project budget for which funds are sought from the Foundation must be justified — both travel and equipment for which funding is sought must be essential for this project.

The Foundation does not fund costs associated with attendance at conferences, either domestic or international. Publication costs levied by scientific journals are not supported by the Foundation.

• Address: PO Box 797 Wangaratta 3676 VIC
• Phone: 0417 013 486
• Email: grants@apscience.org.au
• Website: http://www.hermonslade.org.au/contact-us/