Open Call for Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership

Deadline: 18-Oct-21

The Australian High Commission New Delhi has launched an open call for the Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP) to promote a stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific, to pursue the economic, trade and investment agenda and to keep Australia and Australians safe and secure.

The next generation of technological developments merges new discoveries in physical, digital, and biological systems. India and Australia have a key role to play in contributing to the global development of critical and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), next generation telecommunications (5G / 6G), Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, synthetic biology, blockchain and big data.

The Partnership’s 2021-22 grant program (Grant Round 2) will consider proposals for practical cooperation and collaboration on cyber and critical technology, which will help shape a global technology environment that meets Australia and India’s shared vision of an open, free, rules-based Indo-Pacific region.

Areas

Grant Round 2 will prioritise emerging and critical technology-related proposals that focus on the following areas:

activities that facilitate Australia-India research partnerships, in particular involving academics and think tanks, to strengthen understanding of ethical frameworks for emerging and critical technologies, and the development of best practice on translating ethical frameworks (including existing global frameworks like the G20 AI Principles) into practical action;
initiatives that encourage the development of technical critical technology standards that advance Australia and India’s interests, and enable more meaningful engagement in international standards discussions; and
research on the trends shaping the global and technology marketplace or that assesses the opportunities and effectiveness of ethical frameworks or technical standards for emerging and critical technologies.

Funding Information

For any single grant proposal, the minimum is $150,000 per year and the maximum amount is $600,000 per year. Multiyear grants will be considered up to a maximum of $250,000 per year for up to three years from 2021-22 to 2023-24. Grant funding for activities in 2022-23 will be contingent on funding becoming available to DFAT under the AICCTP.
In total, they anticipate that a total of up to $ 1.8 million in funding would be available for single-year and multi-year grant proposals awarded in grant round 2.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible you must:
- be located in Australia and have a partner institution that is located in India for the purposes of the activity; gold
- be located in India and have a partner institution that is located in
- Australia for the purposes of the activity
and be one of the following entity types:
- at company incorporated in Australia or India
- a company incorporated by guarantee
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
- an incorporated association
- a partnership
- a joint (consortia) application with a lead organization
- a not-for-profit organization
- a think tank or research organization
- an Australian state or territory government body
- an Indian sub-national government body.
Joint applications involving more than one organization are acceptable.