Key information
- Status: Open
- Grant amount: Up to $5,000
- Application opened: 2 May 2025
- Application closes: 22 May 2025, 2:00 pm
Program objective
The objectives of the program are to:
- Support travel, accommodation and registration for experienced NSW practitioners to attend Gamescom 2025
- Ensure digital games practitioners are given access to opportunities to benefit their own careers and reinvest back into the NSW digital games industry
- Support connections that will shape the future of NSW’s creative landscape and strengthen NSW’s position in the global market.
This program is administered by Screen NSW.
Eligibility
Who can apply
Please see the full guidelines on the Screen NSW website.
Applicants must:
- Be a games industry practitioner with commercial game(s) to market or business development interests in a specific commercial game(s) at Gamescom 2025
- Be able to attend the entire conference from 19- 24 August 2025
- Be a NSW based company or individual:
- If a company, the applicant must be incorporated and registered in Australia and have their central management and control in NSW and carry out business in NSW for at least six months immediately before the date of application.
- If an individual, the applicant must be over 18 years of age and a NSW resident (i.e., lived and operated in NSW for at least six months immediately before the application)
- Have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Own or control the necessary rights to any games projects taken to the conference or have the written permission of the rights holder to represent them at business meetings.
- Have game(s) proposed to be marketed at Gamescom that are intended for public release.
Types of projects funded under this grant
Not applicable.
What your application needs to include
Prepare your application with this checklist
You must submit all core materials listed on the application form.
Applicant and project details including:
- Profile of the company or individual demonstrating their level of expertise
- List and summary of any game project(s) including development history that will be represented at Gamescom.
Information regarding fulfilment of market travel objectives including:
- Statement of intended outcomes and objectives for travel to Gamescom 2025
- Applicant’s strategy for achieving these objectives
- How travel and participation to Gamescom will benefit the applicant’s project(s) and/or for service provider’s projects they will be representing.
Market Travel plan including:
- Supporting documentation that demonstrate marketplace interest for games project(s) including:
- A list of confirmed and proposed meetings and/or networking opportunities
- Letter of interest from a market partner if applicable
- Examples of media coverage if applicable
- Confirmation of showcase opportunity if applicable
- Full itemised travel budget including any co-contribution from the applicants or third-parties
- CV/resume of people travelling.
Address the eligibility criteria
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
Start the application
Screen NSW uses the SmartyGrants platform for submission of all applications. Applications made using any other format will not be accepted. Please note you will receive a SmartyGrants acknowledgement of submission.
A preview of the application form can be viewed on the SmartyGrants portal.
Note: If you are a new applicant to SmartyGrants, you will need to register and create a password. If you are already registered, you can log in with your existing username and password.
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After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: Senior Manager, Screen NSW
Once your application has been submitted, you will receive an email confirmation from our secure online grants system, SmartyGrants.
Eligibility
Applications will be initially reviewed by Screen NSW staff to ensure they meet eligibility requirements, and all application materials are acceptable.
Assessment
After eligibility is confirmed, the application will be evaluated by an assessment panel including a minimum of one Screen NSW staff member and one external industry expert.
Please note that funding allocation follows a competitive process. Evaluations will consider the assessment criteria outlined above, the availability of funds at Screen NSW and the applicant's need for Screen NSW funds.
Support and contact
Screen NSW PDV & Digital Games team (pdvgames@screen.nsw.gov.au)