Solve urban challenges and improve local community liveability

We assess your application against the eligibility criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the merit assessment stage.

We then refer your application to an assessment committee that includes:

• Australian Public Service officers with subject matter expertise
• independent technical experts

This committee will make recommendations on which grants to approve. The Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities will make the final decision.

To be competitive you must score highly against all of the merit criteria.

• Merit Criterion 1: The extent to which your project is innovative and uses smart technology and open data (30 points).
• Merit Criterion 2: The scope of social, environmental and economic benefits your project will deliver (30 points).
• Merit Criterion 3: The extent of the project’s community focus and impact on the liveability of the cities, suburbs and towns (20 points).
• Merit Criterion 4: Your capacity, capability and resources to carry out the project (20 points).

If your application is successful, you’ll receive a written offer.

Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will specify the reporting requirements, payment schedule and milestones necessary to receive payments.

We’ll make the first payment when the grant agreement is executed. We’ll make subsequent payments in arrears based on your achievement of activities and your eligible expenditure. We set aside a minimum of 10% of the total grant funding for the final payment. We’ll pay this when you submit a satisfactory final report.

We’ll make payments by direct credit into your nominated bank account.

If you’re unsuccessful, we’ll notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.