Ageing Well Newsletter#2

Since we last wrote to you in October 2015, three of our research projects have launched (with others due early in 2016).

We are also finalising a new Science Leadership Team to help provide expert advice and guidance to the future direction of the Challenge. More details will follow in our next newsletter.

Newsletter topics:

Ageing Well contestable funding round

As we indicated in our newsletter in October, the Ageing Well NSC is planning a 2016 contestable funding round. This research funding will help build upon and expand the scope and potential impacts of the initial portfolio of research projects. It also ensures new people and ideas are incorporated into the Challenge’s work. Thank you to those who contributed to our Challenge’s gap analysis, this helps inform our thinking.

The Challenge has set aside funds of at least $3.5m for an Ageing Well contestable funding round for research up to June 2019. The round will:

  • Target gaps in the current research portfolio and be aligned with Ageing Well's  high-level impacts
  • Require projects to be aligned to Ageing Well's vision and mission and be mission-led and transformative in their conceptualisation and design
  • Require projects to detail how they will address the expectations for Vision Mātauranga
  • Seek detail about early engagement with end-users and key stakeholders in co-development of the research, and about how relationships will be sustained throughout the  research period
  • Require projects to be multidisciplinary and/or multi-sectoral  in nature. We  reserve the right to recommend that applicants, in related fields, who have separately submitted Expressions of Interest (EOI) work together to submit a joint proposal, in order to maximise the opportunity of this funding
  • Ask, wherever possible and appropriate, that applications include meaningful amounts of partnership funding (including ‘in kind’) from other funders or stakeholders.

Proposed timeframes and information sharing

We expect to confirm timeframes in early 2016, however we anticipate:

  • March 2016 a detailed Request for Proposals format (RFP) will be available
  • Expressions of Interest due by 13th May 2016
  • By 30th-June 2016 we expect to have EOI outcomes communicated
  • 19th August 2016 full proposals will be requested
  • 28th October 2016 notification of outcomes delivered

We will ask for proposals to be submitted via Research Offices, wherever possible and appropriate.

We intend on delivering Contestable Round roadshows in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin in April 2016. If you are interested in attending a roadshow, please let us know. Further details and a 'save the date' notice will follow in the new year.

We will continue to keep you updated with our plans and hope to see many of you at our roadshows in early 2016.

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2016 Ageing Well National Colloquium—14 September

Following the successful 2015 National Colloquium, the 2016 Ageing Well National Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, 14 September 2016 in Wellington.

Further information will follow in early 2016, but please hold this date in your diaries now.
2015 Ageing Well National Colloquium report

 

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Share your news and activities

We will shortly refresh our website and would welcome additional material from our stakeholders. If you have an Ageing Well-related event, consultation or issue you’d like us to help promote, please let us know.

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Keeping in touch

We will produce quarterly newsletter updates about our work programme and to help showcase Ageing Well NSC research. Look for us on social media (twitter and facebook) and connect with us. If you know of others who might be interested in receiving these updates or to be part of our mailing lists, please let us know.

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Best wishes,

The Ageing Well Team.

Best wishes to all for a restful summer break. We look forward to continuing to work with you in 2016.

The Ageing Well Team.

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National Science Challenges' background

If you’re interested in knowing more about the background, purpose and structure of the 11 National Science Challenges (NSCs), the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has an overview:
National Science Challenges (MBIE website)

We have an Ageing Well website, which we update regularly. It provides further background to who we are and what we’re trying to achieve in this important area of research:
Ageing Well National Science Challenge

 

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