MRFF Million Minds Mission - 2019 Suicide Prevention

TIMELINE

ASAP: Notice of Intent (NOI) registration OPEN
10am, 13 Jan 2020 (Monday): Draft Grant Proposal due to RIC for strategic review. Early submission encouraged.
5pm, 22 Jan 2020 (Wednesday): Draft application due to RIC for compliance and eligibility check
5pm, 22 Jan 2020 (Wednesday): Minimum Data due on RGMS
5pm, 3 Feb 2020 (Monday): Authority to Submit
10am, 3 Feb 2020 (Monday): Final application submitted to RIC
5pm, 5 Feb 2020 (Wednesday): Final application submitted to NHMRC

Overview

The objectives of the 2019 Suicide Prevention Grant Opportunity are to:

support innovative, high-quality, collaborative research that focuses on interventions to prevent suicide
promote effective translation of research into health policy and/or practice
foster and build workforce capacity and workforce capability
leverage collaborations between research teams, policy makers, healthcare funders and the health delivery sector (e.g. education, community, industry and/or healthcare)

To be competitive for funding, applicants must propose to conduct research that delivers against the above objectives. Competitive applications will primarily involve interventions that will reduce the number of suicides in Australia and achieve the following intended outcomes:

new or improved interventions to prevent suicide
clear implementation pathways for prevention and early-intervention strategies
increased translation of patient-focussed research into health policy and/or practice
increased research capacity and workforce capability
established collaborative partnerships between researchers, consumers, policy providers and the delivery sector.

Funding

The Australian Government has announced a total of $125 million for the Million Minds Mission Initiative. For this Grant Opportunity, up to $8 million of funding is available over four years from 2020-21 to 2023-24. The maximum grant period is four years.

2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
$2.0m	$2.0m	$2.0m	$2.0m

Eligibility

- This grant opportunity does not support research that is:

primarily descriptive or epidemiological in nature
not intervention-focussed
duplicative of previous or current research, and/or
based entirely overseas (out of Australia).

- Research that is duplicative of the National Suicide Prevention Trial (the Trial) will not be supported by this opportunity.

- A person must not be named as a Chief Investigator (CI) on more than one application submitted to this grant opportunity. Up to 10 CIs may be included as members of the research team.

- You are not eligible if your research proposal was submitted to the MRFF International Clinical Trial Collaboration (ICTC) Program and it is currently being assessed, or is included in the ICTC Merit List. Chief Investigators on an application submitted to the ICTC Program that is currently being assessed or is included in the ICTC Merit List are eligible to submit a different research proposal to this grant opportunity.

- The proposed research should not duplicate research previously or currently being undertaken. The NHMRC may compare the research proposed in grant applications with grants previously or currently funded by the MRFF, NHMRC or other agencies (e.g. Australian Research Council) and published research (see also section 4.7 – Other ineligible expenditure)

How to apply

Notice of Intent: Please register your Notice of Intent if you are considering applying for the MRFF RCRDUN. RIC-MRFF team will then contact each applicant with further information.
Update RGMS Profile: Each CI must obtain access to RGMS and update profile information (see RGMS information)
Review documentation: Review the grant guidelines and Assessment Criteria Scoring Matrix below. Relevant documents can be found on Grant Connect.
Create and Complete the application: Log in to RGMS select "MRFF - Research Grant" from Initiatives and then select the relevant scheme from Round and complete the application.
Submit “Review Ready” application to RIC: Submit application to RIC within the RIC internal submission period for review.
Complete application: After taking feedback from the RIC team into consideration, complete the application in RGMS. It is suggested advice is sought from colleagues, Faculty Mentors, etc. before finalising the application.
Submit the UoM Authority to Submit Form:

This form must be submitted to RIC electronically by the final internal closing date. This form should include:

Complete the compliance and eligibility section
Signature of all CIs and AIs
Signature of the Head of Department for CIA

Electronic signatures and email consent are permitted.

This is an NHMRC requirement and the application cannot be submitted to NHMRC until received.

Final Submission:

On the final internal closing date, the applicant must:
Submit finalised application by clicking ‘Submit to RAO’ in RGMS
Email RIC enquiries-mrff@unimelb.edu.au as well as a scanned, signed Authority to Submit form.
Should you require further information please contact Alvin Wong on 83449352 or via email