OVERVIEW
Funding is available up to $120,000 per grant (excluding funding requests for health economics) for original research that demonstrates importance to emergency healthcare, excluding funding requests for health economics.
The purpose of Leading Edge funding is to provide medium term (up to two years) support for seed funding for innovative research that may have the potential for future funding by granting bodies, to leverage additional funding from other granting bodies, including but not limited to National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) or the Australian Research Council (ARC) or other foundation.
CLOSING DATE: 17 AUG 2026 (10am)
Download and read the guidelines to ensure you meet the full eligibility criteria and for detailed information on completing your application.
FUNDING GUIDELINES R46 >You can use this template to build your grant application prior to submitting via our grant management platform, SmartyGrants.
Please note: SmartyGrants is not Word compatible therefore the online grant application will need to be populated by copying the content into the online form.
You can use this template to build your grant application prior to submitting via our grant management platform, SmartyGrants.
BUDGET PREPARATION TEMPLATE R46 (EXCEL) >EMF requires you to submit an Application Certification document with your application.
The Principal Investigator, the Head/s of Department/s (or equivalent) and the Administering Institution are required to sign the Application Certification Document which must be uploaded with the application.
EMF uses SmartyGrants to process your application. The link below will take you to SmartyGrants where you can start, complete and submit your grant application.
APPLY ON SMARTYGRANTS >This SmartyGrants Help Guide explains the steps you need to take to complete and submit your grant application
SMARTYGRANTS HELP GUIDE >Should you have any questions please contact the EMF Research Team on (07) 3112 8668 or email grants@emfoundation.org.au.