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Expressions of Interest due: Oct 11, 2024.
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Applications for funding should open Jan 2025. 
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Welcome

ACCAN works towards achieving communications services that are trusted, inclusive, and available for all.

With this aim, the ACCAN Grants Program funds projects to enable research on telecommunications issues, represent telecommunications consumers, or create educational tools which empower consumers to understand telecommunications products and services and make decisions in their own interests.

On the following pages you will find all the information you need to decide if your project idea is eligible for an ACCAN Grant, and how to apply. 

To be eligible, projects must address systemic telecommunications consumer issues. Have a browse through the following ACCAN Grants Projects to get a feel for the type of work that is funded under the Program.

Monash Dark Ads Report cover

Monash University, Automated Society Working Group

Grant round: 2019

Amount: $49,579

People with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds participating in researchFirst Nations Media Australia

Grant round: 2019

Amount: $49,670

Man working at home with daughter on lapSACOSS (South Australian Council of Social Service)

Grant Round: 2019

Amount: $99,112

WEstjustice

Grant Round: 2019

Amount awarded: $50,000

Representation of consumers connected to each otherUTS Faculty of Law, UNE School of Law

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $50,603

overhead view of farmers sitting & standing, chatting. Screen in front of them.

James Cook University, Cairns Institute

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $36,000

Deakin Spyware Cover Image for web

Deakin University, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $60,728

Thanks a Bundle Research Report Cover

University of Melbourne, Melbourne Social Equity Institute

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $69,428

MoneyMob Photograph MoneyMob Talkabout

Grant Round: 2019

Amount: $50,000

Concerned red-headed young woman looks at phone, she is backgrounded with streams of personal dataUTS School of Communication

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $55,302

 Image showing stylized graphics of electronic identity gathering methodsQUT School of Justice, Faculty of Law

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $53,247

Image of back of client speaking with staff member behind counter, under a red banner reading "Welcome to Hutt St Centre. A place of change, choice and opportunity"

Hutt St Centre

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $5,000

Man standing in front of media wallQueensland University of Technology, Digital Media Research Centre

Grant round: 2016

Amount: $59,860

young girl wearing headphones looks to right against black backgroundCurtin University, Department of Internet Studies

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $32,000

Wesnet project imageWESNET (Women's Services Network) Incorporated

Grant round: 2019

Amount: $49,807

woman in check shirt talking on mobile phone, standing in field of wheat

Broadband for the Bush Alliance

Grant round: 2017-18

Amount: $51,005

Couple stand among a sample of IoT devices

University of New South Wales, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

Grant round: 2016

Amount: $50,000

A range of small images representing the types of identity theft, who is targeted and what happens

Australian National University, Research School of Management

In partnership with IDCare, and the University of the Sunshine Coast, Centre for Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems.

Grant round: 2016

Amount: $44,965.50


illustration of woman looking at phone with several speech bubbles depicting emotions and struggles

University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre

Grant round: 2016

Amount: $59,842.30

Image of young woman showing a face of concern while talking on phone Financial and Consumer Rights Council Inc. (FCRC)

Grant round: 2016

Amount: $60,000

Women in class with instructor

The Association of Hazaras in Victoria

In partnership with the Victorian Afghan Associations Network

Grant round: 2016

Amount: $7,500

Department of Media and Communications, the University of Melbourne

Grant round: 2015

Grant: $49,267

Curtin University

Grant round: 2015

Grant: $26,200

Monash University

Grant round: 2015

Grant: $14,572