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National Health and Medical Research Council

Sapphire

Direct link: www.nhmrc.gov.au/sapphire
Responsible agency: Department of Health and Aged Care.

Sapphire is the National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) technology solution for supporting end-to-end management of all Medical Research Endowment Account grant opportunities (GOs) as well as Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) GOs administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Department of Health and Aged Care.

Sapphire is used by researchers, reviewers, administering institutions, eligible organisations and NHMRC staff to undertake a range of grant-related activities from application, through assessment, to the award and grant administration.

Sapphire has been developed and implemented in stages over a number of years, to serve as a reliable and functional system for the future.

Sapphire replaced NHMRC’s legacy Research Grants Management System (RGMS), which was decommissioned from general use in January 2022.

Capabilities

This design is part of the following capability.
CAP31

Grant management

Policies

This design can be relevant to meeting the requirements of the following policies.
POL23

Grant management policy

Standards

This design can be useful in achieving the intent of the following standard(s).

Grant management standard

STA36
Grant management systems enable the administration of grants throughout their entire lifecycles. Functions include processing grant applications, assessment of eligibility, management of grant funding, tracking of grants and grant programs, auditing, and reporting. These functions are common…
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