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Marsden Fund

Supports excellence in science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanitie...
  • Supports excellence in science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities in New Zealand by providing grants for investigator-initiated research

Catalyst Fund

Advancing global science partnerships for New Zealand
  • Advancing global science partnerships for New Zealand

Science Teaching Leadership Programme

Making a real difference to students' science learning by en...
  • Making a real difference to students' science learning by enhancing the teaching of science within school communities

CREST Awards

Researching and investigating creative and innovative science and technological solut...
  • Researching and investigating creative and innovative science and technological solutions to practical problems

Powering Potential

A programme that empowers secondary students to realise their full potential
  • A programme that empowers secondary students to realise their full potential

Charles Fleming Fund

Incorporates a senior scientist award to support research, a publishing award...
  • Incorporates a senior scientist award to support research, a publishing award to support scientific publications, and an environmental award to recognise work undertake...

Supporting international research collaboration

We support New Zealand researchers to collaborate ...
  • We support New Zealand researchers to collaborate with international partners by managing funds for collaboration and travel and international unions.

Raewyn Good Study Award

Study award of $6,000 for Māori and Pasifika postgraduate student underta...
  • Study award of $6,000 for Māori and Pasifika postgraduate student undertaking a Master’s which involves social sciences research.

RHT Bates Postgraduate Scholarship

Study award of $6,000 for a PhD in the Physical Sciences and En...
  • Study award of $6,000 for a PhD in the Physical Sciences and Engineering in a New Zealand university.

Hutton Fund

Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in New Zealand zoology, botany and geology.
  • Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in New Zealand zoology, botany and geology.

Skinner Fund

Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in the study of the history, a...
  • Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in the study of the history, art, culture, physical and social anthropology of the Māori and other Polynesian pe...

Human Frontier Science Program

HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic researc...
  • HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms.

Falling Walls Lab

Opportunity for next generation innovators and creative thinkers to share, in 3 ...
  • Opportunity for next generation innovators and creative thinkers to share, in 3 minutes, their research project, business model or social initiative relevant to the wor...

Rutherford Foundation

Supports early career researchers, funds PhD scholarships and postdoctoral f...
  • Supports early career researchers, funds PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships, and helps bring outstanding overseas New Zealand researchers back home.

Talented School Students Travel Award

Financial support for intermediate and secondary school stud...
  • Financial support for intermediate and secondary school students who have been selected on a national basis to attend international science and technology events.

James Cook Research Fellowship

Supports experienced researchers to pursue their research full-time
  • Supports experienced researchers to pursue their research full-time

CoREs

The Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs) Fund encourages the development of excellent tert...
  • The Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs) Fund encourages the development of excellent tertiary-education based research that is collaborative, strategically focussed ...

The Sir Hugh Kawharu Masters Scholarship for Innovation in Science

Supporting and encouraging mast...
  • Supporting and encouraging masters level study by Māori in the sciences.

Teachers in Industry

The Teachers in Industry programme connected schools/kura with science or tec...
  • The Teachers in Industry programme connected schools/kura with science or technology-intensive businesses in their community...

Rutherford Discovery Fellowships

Supports New Zealand’s most talented early- to mid-career resea...
  • Supports New Zealand’s most talented early- to mid-career researchers for a five year term

WDS Data Stewardship Award

Highlights contributions to improved scientific data stewardship by ear...
  • Highlights contributions to improved scientific data stewardship by early career researchers and enables them to travel to SciDataCon Conference.

SCAR

Helping New Zealand registered postgraduate students to attend the 2017 SCAR symposium.
  • Helping New Zealand registered postgraduate students to attend the 2017 SCAR symposium.

James G. Hay Travel Award

The award is to assist New Zealand university staff or postgraduate stud...
  • The award is to assist New Zealand university staff or postgraduate students in biomechanics to present a paper at each biennial ISB Congress.

New Zealand Ecohydraulics Trust Travel Award

To enable postgraduate students or early career New Z...
  • To enable postgraduate students or early career New Zealand researchers to present a paper at the biennial Ecohydraulics conference.

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