Updates
The latest from A Better StartWebinars offer guidance for research proposals
Webinar guidance for researchers submitting proposals for the A Better Start Cure Kids contestable funding round.
Innovative child health research fund launches
A multi-million dollar funding pool to foster research that delivers tangible benefits to New Zealand children and their families was launched today.
Award for Challenge Board member
Congratulations to A Better Start National Science Challenge Board member Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid who received the prestigious Dr Paratene Ngata Te Ngākau Ora Award at the Te ORA (Māori Medical Practitioners Association) hui held at the Papakura Marae recently.
Multi-million dollar funding collaboration to improve child health
A Better Start, one of the country’s 11 National Science Challenges, and Cure Kids, New Zealand’s largest national child health research charity, have joined forces to create a new contestable fund in child health.
National Science Challenge tackles childhood obesity, literacy and mental health
A new National Science Challenge – A Better Start: E Tipu e Rea – aims to reduce obesity and improve learning skills and mental health in New Zealand children.
Tamaki College hosts launch of A Better Start
Tamaki College in Auckland’s Glen Innes hosted the launch of A Better Start by Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce.
Young people the focus of new Science Challenge
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today launched “A Better Start” - E Tipu e Rea - New Zealand’s 10th National Science Challenge.
