Schools Pathways Program Open Competitive | business.gov.au (2024)

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN) or an Australian Company Number (ACN)
• are registered for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
• have an account with an Australian financial institution.

And are one of the following entities:

• an entity incorporated in Australia
• an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
• an incorporated not for profit organisation or registered charity
• an Australian Commonwealth Corporate Entity.

You can’t apply if you are:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• an individual
• a partnership
• an unincorporated association
• an overseas organisation
• an Australian local government agency or body as defined at Section 14 of the grant opportunity guidelines
• an Australian state/territory Government agency or body.

Partner with other organisations

You can partner with one or more other organisations that also meet the eligibility criteria. But you must decide who the lead organisation is.

The lead organisation must fill out the application form.

If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:

• signs the grant agreement
• is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.

You must complete your project by 31 March 2024.

Your project must:

• be located in Australia
• include eligible activities
• support Sovereign Defence Industrial Priorities.

You can apply for a grant between $150,000 and $2,000,000.

Refer to section 5.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines for information on what you can use this grant funding for.

First we check that you meet the eligibility criteria. Then we assess your application against the assessment criteria.

The assessment criteria are a set of rules that describe how we must assess each application.

We give each criterion a certain number of points.

Applications must score at least 65% against each assessment criteria to be considered meritorious.

Meritorious applications will then be ranked competitively according to the total number of points we give your application.

• Assessment criterion 1: Project alignment with the objectives and outcomes of the grant opportunity (40 points)
• Assessment criterion 2: Project support for critical defence industry hubs (20 points)
• Assessment criterion 3: Your capability, capacity and resources to deliver the project (20 points)
• Assessment criterion 4: Project impact and impact of grant funding (20 points)

The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested.

The program delegate makes the final decision.