Deadline: 9-Jan-22
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.
In 2020-21, the AIIPOIP generated ideas and cooperation to begin implementation of the IPOI, which is feeding into actions taken by both governments and non-government actors. In 2021-22, the AIIPOIP focuses on building areas of practical cooperation between Australia, India, and the Indo-Pacific along specific areas which the Australian and Indian governments have identified as priorities, particularly in the field of combating marine plastic waste and marine ecology.
Objectives
The AIIPOIP 2021-22 grant opportunity has three overarching objectives:
- to strengthen Australia-India cooperation by deepening institutional linkages between Australian and Indian researchers, businesses and government on maritime issues
- to build partnerships, regional consensus, generate ideas and advance practical cooperation under maritime ecology pillar of the IPOI, including on:
- Understanding marine pollution dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, including tools to better understand spatio-temporal distribution of micro-plastics, and detection of floating marine plastic
- Regional marine plastics management
- Innovative approaches to building the circular economy
- Tools and innovations to segregate plastics based on types and improving reliability of information about recycled plastics.
- other practical ideas for how the IPOI can link with existing regional mechanisms and arrangements, in particular ASEAN, IORA and the PIF.
Priority Areas
In assessing applications, the Commonwealth of Australia through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will prioritise initiatives that:
- use a collaborative and multi-stakeholder model that combines knowledge and resources from stakeholders in Australia, India and (where appropriate) a third country
- build links with, and leverage, the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP) to drive closer engagement with Southeast Asia
- mainstream gender equality in the implementation of grant activities to support women’s empowerment
- generate multi-platform outputs (e.g. publications, webinars, conferences and exchanges)
- promote a rules-based maritime order underpinned by adherence to international law, including by increasing knowledge of rights and obligations under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
- propose innovative models and strategies to mitigate marine pollution and plastic waste, including by facilitating dialogue with industry on new recycling technologies; and/or
- promote scientific and technical cooperation on marine plastic waste.
Funding Information
- The AIIPOIP’s competitive open call grant round 1 and subsequent rounds are anticipated to allocate up to around $1.4 million from 2020-21 to 2023-24. Up to $350,00 is anticipated to be available for allocation in 2020-21.
- For any single grant application for 2020-21, the maximum budget is $116,500.
Eligible Activities
- To be eligible your project must:
- support the intended objectives of the AIIPOIP and by addressing the objectives 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible you must:
- be located in India and have a partner institution that is located in Australia for the purposes of the activity; or
- be located in Australia and have a partner institution that is located in India for the purposes of the activity
- and be one of the following entity types:
- a 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 organisation
- a not-for-profit organisation
- a university or think tank or research organisation
- an Australian state or territory government body
- an Indian sub-national government body.
Joint applications involving more than one organisation are acceptable. Multi-stakeholder involvement (including from businesses, non-government organisations, and/or government bodies) is encouraged where appropriate and eligible. Applications involving partners based in third countries in the Indo-Pacific (including but not limited to Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and other ASEAN countries) are encouraged.
For more information, visit https://india.highcommission.gov.au/ndli/AIIPOIP1.html
