Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5289

The Australia-India Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative Partnership (AIIPOIP) helps shape maritime cooperation in the Indo-Pacific to support an open, inclusive, resilient, prosperous and rules-based maritime order. These grants are to support maritime projects which advance the goals of India’s Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI), especially the marine ecology pillar that is co-led by Australia.

The funding under this Partnership is available to partners to progress the IPOI initiative to a stage where more intergovernmental activities take place. This opportunity is set to catalyse ideas for the IPOI to pursue in future years by focusing on the maritime ecology pillar, on which Australia is the lead partner.

To be eligible your project must: support the intended objectives of the AIIPOIP and by addressing the objectives under Section 2.2 and the assessment criteria; and include eligible activities and eligible expenditure. Eligible activities must relate directly to the project and could include:

joint research projects which result in publications; industry specific user guides, advisories, standards etc; traditional research outputs of books, chapters, journal articles and conference publications; technical training, conferences, dialogues, workshops, seminars and events; mentoring and support in developing IPOI implementation frameworks; new research-related information sharing and communication initiatives; exchanges and secondments of personnel between Australia and India; collaboration mechanisms across industries or levels of government; other innovative solutions that promote best practice.

We may also approve other activities.

The proposed project is expected be completed within 12 months from date of commencement (March 2022).

$400,000.00

From $0.00 to $100,000.00

Complete an application in a word document, addressing the eligibility and assessment criteria to be considered for a grant.  Provide all the information requested and include all necessary attachments.  

Email your application/s to: IPOIMaritime@dfat.gov.au, ccing:  Maki.Shinosaki@dfat.gov.au and Tiffany.Seah@dfat.gov.au by 23.59 AEDT on Sunday 9 January 2022.

For further information, and to answer your queries, you are invited to attend one of the following two information sessions:

Grant Information Session 1

Wednesday 8 December 2021, 4pm AEDT/10.30am New Delhi India Time by logging on at:

https://meet128.webex.com/meet/pr1581047923

Grant Information Session 2

Thursday 16 December 2021, 4pm AEDT/10.30am New Delhi India Time by logging on at:

https://meet128.webex.com/meet/pr1581047923