Tag: grants

NSW govt cuts innovation grants, trims others

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A handful of industry and innovation grant programs put on hold by the New South Wales government earlier this year are set to restart with reduced funding in the...

$60m fund for plastics recycling technology opens

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The federal government has launched a $60 million grant program to support recycling technology innovation and advanced recycling techniques targeting hard-to-recycle plastics. The plastics technology stream of the Recycling...

Generative AI banned from research grant assessments

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian Research Council has banned grant assessors from using generative AI tools in their assessment activities just days after reports emerged that ChatGPT had been used in assessor...

Govt set to ‘refocus’ export grants scheme

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Eligibility reforms and payment caps are among the changes to the popular Export Market Development Grant program being considered by the federal government to address long-term structural problems with...

Committee call: Time to clean up government grants

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Better rules surrounding tens of billions of dollars in Commonwealth grants are needed to prevent repeats of the Morrison government’s “industrial scale rorting”,  Parliament’s audit committee has recommended. After...

Moon to Mars initiative commits $40m to space projects

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Moon to Mars Initiative Demonstrator Mission Grants worth around $40 million have been awarded to 10 projects led by Australian businesses and universities that aim to support NASA’s return...

Milk algorithms, beef e-certs among $6m in regtech grants

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Algorithms for milk supply chain audits, beef e-certifications and emissions tracking systems for rice crops are among the 15 projects to share in $6 million in federal regtech grants...