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Extension Grants Program

Extension grants are designed to support the Office for Learning and Teaching’s major programs through the continued dissemination and embedding of completed learning an teaching projects. These may be projects funded within institutions, or by one of the OLT’s predecessor bodies.

Indicative Program Funding: $400,000

UNE applicants should contact the OLT Institutional contact officer for additional information and assistance.

Funding Policy: Funding is in the form of a grant up to $30,000 provided to disseminate or embed the outcomes of completed learning and teaching projects or fellowships in institutions which were not partners in the original project.

Funds may be used to trial resources or curricula, run workshops, present at relevant conferences or to establish new websites.

Funds may be approved to maintain existing project or fellowship websites beyond the period mandated in the original grant.

Closing Date – Note the closing dates for extension grant applications differs from other grant programs

  Deadline 1 – Monday 2 April

  Deadline 2 – Monday 3 September

UNE applicants should contact the OLT Institutional contact officer for additional information and assistance.

Program Objectives:

Extension Grants are specifically to achieve the following objectives:

  • Raise the profile and encourage recognition of he fundamental importance of teaching in higher education institutions and in the general community; and
  • Develop effective mechanisms for the identification, development, dissemination and embedding of good individual and institutional practice, including addressing particular contextual barriers to taking on.

Applications MUST BE FROM THE INSTITUTION, not from an individual or conference.

Eligibility criteria

All applications will be assessed in line with the following criteria:

  1. The application must come from an institution, and not from an individual or conference. Collaboration is encouraged, but not essential.
  2. The original project must be complete, i.e., the final report has been published and the grant acquitted.
  3. The maximum funding available per application is $30,000.
  4. The proposed activities must include at least two deliverables and each must have an explicit audience (e.g. workshop participants, conference audience, group of students).
  5. The extension project team can be part or all of the original team, or a new team, or a combination of the two. The original fellow does not have to be a member of the extension project team.
  6. The activities must take place at an institution or institutions not partners in the original project or host to the fellowship (the ‘beneficiary institutions’).
  7. The project team must provide written evidence of support at executive level from the lead institution for the activities, or evidence of acceptance of conference abstracts, or both.
  8. The funding requested should be matched by the beneficiary institution/s. Some of the matching funding can be in kind.
  9. Only one application per extension project team can be submitted in any one round. Different teams may apply to disseminate the outcomes of the same completed projects or fellowships, and a single team may submit applications relating to different projects or fellowships, in the same round.
  10. The size and significance of the conference/forum/activity will be taken into account, as will the potential benefit to the sector.
  11. The activities must be scheduled to take place within a year of the closing date on which the application is submitted.
  12. Applications must be on the prescribed application form.

Application completion

The project proposal is limited to five pages, including description of proposed activities and deliverables.  Details of the extension project team members and their proposed roles in the project, project timeline, and project budget, which should clearly show the beneficiary institution/s’ contribution, must also be included.

Evidence of support for the activities is required from the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Educational Innovation and International.

Approval process and notification

OLT staff will assess applications for eligibility.  Eligible applications will be assessed in accordance with standard practice for OLT grant applications and fellowship nominations.  Applications will be considered by the OLT Grants Team, and approved by the OLT Branch Manager.  Applicants can expect to be notified of the outcome within four weeks of the closing date.