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Maitri Grant Program 2025-26

Tender ID: 595087


Tender Details

Tender #:
GO7904  
Status:
Closed
Publish Date:
17 September 2025
Closing Date:
4 November 2025
Closing Time:
05:00 PM (Australia/ACT)

Tender Description

⁠⁠⁠The Centre for Australia-India Relations provides grants for economic, cultural and policy projects that benefit the Australia-India relationship. The Maitri (“friendship” in Sanskrit) Grant Program has been developed to deliver the Maitri Grants and Maitri Cultural partnerships programs.

The Centre is seeking to fund projects that will:

drive new areas of business engagement between Australia and India in sectors outlined in A New Roadmap for Australia's Economic Engagement with India, including the four superhighways of growth:

  • clean energy to further advance and deliver supply chain resilience
  • utilising education and skills to support research into new avenues for industry collaboration and opportunities to commercialise Australia’s technical capability with India
  • identify and provide education and opportunities for businesses without mature existing channels for market access, including SMEs and First Nations businesses
  • agri-tech to further leverage the benefits of our economic cooperation under the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA)
  • activities that support sports collaboration to generate economic engagement

deliver high impact cultural, and people to people projects, activities and exchanges that may:

  • build India capability at major Australian cultural institutions to improve mainstream understanding of India
  • harness diaspora influence to promote the Australian Indian relationship, including the Indian economic opportunity



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