Funding programs

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.

AICTE offers a variety of research funds across the fields of technical education in India.

The AIC's mission is to advance Australia's foreign and trade policy interests by building awareness and understanding between the peoples and institutions of Australia and India.

The Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) supports scientists in India and Australia to collaborate on leading-edge research.

The $12.7 million Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP) contributes to priorities promoting a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific.

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) is an Australian Government statutory authority that operates within the portfolio of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The ARC’s purpose is to grow knowledge and innovation for the benefit of the Australian community through funding the highest quality research, assessing the quality, engagement and impact of research and providing advice on research matters. The ARC provides advice to the Government on research matters and administers the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP), a significant component of Australia's investment in research and development.

The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources is a department of the Australian Government responsible for consolidating the Government’s efforts to drive economic growth, productivity and competitiveness by bringing together industry, energy, resources and science

GIAN aims to tap the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs, internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment India's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.

INSPIRE is an innovative programme sponsored and managed by India’s Department of Science & Technology to attract talent to Science. The basic objective of this program is to communicate to the youth of the country the excitement of the creative pursuit of science, attract talent to the study of science from an early age, and build the required critical human resource pool to strengthen and expand the Science & Technology sector and R&D base.

IMPRINT is the first of its kind MHRD supported Pan-IIT + IISc joint initiative to address the major science and engineering challenges that India must address and champion to enable, empower and embolden the nation for inclusive growth and self-reliance.

The National Health and Medical Research Council is a statutory authority and the primary agency of the Australian Government responsible for medical and public health research. It is one of the ten largest funders of health research in the world, and NHMRC-funded research is globally recognised for its high quality.

The Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) aims to improve the research ecosystem of India’s Higher Education Institutions by facilitating academic and research collaborations.

The main aim of STRIDE is to identify young talent, strengthen research culture, build capacity, promote innovation and support trans-disciplinary research for India’s developing economy and national development, and to fund multi-institutional network and high-impact research projects in humanities and human sciences

The Research Training Program provides block grants, on a calendar year basis, to Higher Education Providers in support of both domestic and overseas students undertaking Research Doctorate and Research Masters degrees, known as higher degrees by research (HDRs).

The Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS) promotes translational, India-centric research in Sciences, implemented and managed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

The New Colombo Plan (NCP), launched in 2014, aims to lift knowledge in Australia in the Indo-Pacific by supporting Australian undergraduates to study and undertake internships in the region.

The University Grants Commission (UGC), established in 1953, is a statutory organisation of the Government of India tasked to coordinate, determine and maintain the standards of teaching, examinations and research in university education.