This year the Council of Australasian University Librarians OER Collective grants program is offering three award categories with seven grant opportunities.
Read more about eligibility and requirements in the 2025-2026 Grant Program Guidelines.
Considering applying?
Find out how the Library OER team can support your grant application.
Award categories
Creation Grants
COLLABORATE
- Funding: $10,000
- Purpose: Creation of a major collaborative text
CREATE
- Funding: $2,500
- Purpose: Creation grant to complete a new text
LEAP
- Funding: $2,500
- Purpose: Creation grant to support an unpublished institution to complete a new text
ACTUALISE
- Funding: $2,000
- Purpose: Complete an in-progress project in 2025
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Adoption Grant
ADOPT+
- Funding: 2x $2,500 (2 grants available)
- Purpose: This new grant addresses the widespread need for supplementary resources to boost the adoption of OER. This grant supports the creation of resources for use with existing OER that will be adopted by the institution.
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Tell Us What You Need Grant
WILDCARD
- Funding: $3,000
- Purpose: Support projects that don’t fit into other OER Collective grant categories
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Timeline
Activity
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Date
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| Expressions of interest OPEN |
25 March 2025 |
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Expressions of interest CLOSE
- COLLABORATE grant
- All other grants
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30 May 2025
02 May 2025
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Grant recipients ANNOUNCED
- COLLABORATE grant
- All other grants
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Mid-June 2025
Mid-late May 2025
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Submission of complete copyedited, proofread, peer-reviewed OER
- ACTUALISE grant
- COLLABORATE grant
- All other grants
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December 2025
December 2026
June 2026
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