Current funding available
For research organisations

Click on the links below to see if we currently have funding available in each of these research areas and where investment processes are up to. For a snapshot view of all funding areas, see the research organisation funding overview.

Research for Industry (RFI)

• Innovative Foods (INF) funding is for research that improves the value of New Zealand’s food production.
• High Value Manufacturing Products, Processes and Services (MAN) funding is for research that contributes to manufactured goods, materials and related services.
• Niche Biological Products, Processes and Services (NBP) funding is for research that develops value-added non-food products from biological raw materials.
• Optimising Physical Resources and Infrastructure (ORI) funding is for research to improve energy management and infrastructure.
• Production, Quality and Assurance (PQA) funding is for research that improves the primary sector industries productivity and efficiency by producing high-quality products for export.
• Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (RIC) funding is for research that identifies, prepares and allows for prompt recovery from hazards and risks.
• Building Knowledge Intensive Service Industries (SER) funding is for research on increasing the benefits to New Zealand through international tourism.
• Sustaining New Zealand’s Economic and Technological Advancement (SET) funding is for research that contributes to understanding how New Zealand can achieve improved wellbeing for its people through economic and technological development.
• Sustainable Productive Systems (SPS) funding is for research that allows for primary production to be environmentally sustainable and not adversely affected by pests.

Environmental Research (ENV)

• Resilient, Functioning and Restored Ecosystems (ECO) funding is for research that supports New Zealand's land, freshwater and marine ecosystems to operate, adapt or recover.
• Understanding and Adapting to Global Processes and Change (GLO) funding is for research to understand and adapt to global environmental change.
• Building Sustainable Cities and Settlements (SCS) funding is for research that improves environmental, social, cultural and economic management of New Zealand's cities and settlements.
• Maintaining Environmental Integrity for Sustainable Resource Use (SRU) funding is for research related to productive resource use, emphasising maintaining environmental integrity.

New Economy Research Fund (NERF)

• Future Human Technologies (FHT) funding is for generating new knowledge about human health, function and wellbeing.
• Creating Opportunities Through New Physical Technologies (NPT) funding is for research into physical materials, information and communications technologies.
• Technologies to Leverage New Zealand's Strengths (NZS) funding is for research that contributes to developing technology platforms that leverage New Zealand's strengths.
• High Technology Transformational Research, Science & Technology (High Tech TRST) funding supports the development of existing research with the potential to accelerate the proof of concept and potential application of the research into identified high technology business opportunities

Social Research (SOC)

• Building an Inclusive Society (BIS) funding supports research that contributes to improved social outcomes and achieving or sustaining an inclusive society in New Zealand.

Maori Knowledge and Development Research (MKDR)

• Te Tipu o te Wānanga (TTW) funding supports research that helps to achieve the innovation potential of Māori knowledge, people or resources.

International Investments Opportunities Fund (IIOF)

• International investments opportunities fund (IIOF) funding supports research that offers significant benefit in terms of international science collaboration, capability building or economic benefit to New Zealand, with good prospects of capturing those benefits.

PreSeed Accelerator Fund

• PreSeed (PSAF) funding to maximise the commercial benefits to New Zealand from publicly-funded research in science and technology.

Sustainable Energy Research (SED)

• Low Carbon Emission Technology (LCET) funding supports research that is related to the scale up and demonstration of existing research on second generation biofuels, other low carbon liquid biofuels and low carbon energy technologies.

Other funding or support not linked to investment portfolios

• Antarctica New Zealand funding provides logistical support for the 2008/09 and/or the 2009/10 season(s).