What is the Active Australia Innovation Challenge?

The Active Australia Innovation Challenge is part of the Healthy Heart Initiative funded by the Australian Government. It aims to encourage schools (primary and secondary), tertiary institutions (universities, TAFEs, colleges), and other organisations, including councils and community groups to raise awareness of the benefits of physical activity and develop and implement innovative project ideas to encourage physical activity in a chosen group or community.

What is Innovation?

In the Active Australia Innovation Challenge, innovation refers to:

• A creative or new idea for a project, partnership, product and/or process to increase physical activity within a specific group or community.
• Innovation may be location specific, that is, what’s innovative in one area may not be in another area or setting across Australia

How does the challenge work?

Schools, universities, TAFEs, colleges, councils and community groups are encouraged to come up with an innovative idea.

The project idea should encourage physical activity in a chosen group or community and be submitted via an online application form. Eligible ideas will be identified using the guidelines and put forward for shortlisting. Finalists will be given the opportunity to present their project proposal virtually in front of a national judging panel of experts.