{"id":10633,"date":"2021-03-12T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10633"},"modified":"2021-03-12T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:10:02","slug":"30m-grants-program-to-support-local-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/30m-grants-program-to-support-local-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"$30m grants program to support local manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government is supporting Australia\u2019s manufacturers to turn their good ideas into world-beating realities that create more local jobs, with a new $30 million fund.<br \/>\nMinister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said the Commercialisation Fund will foster projects that bring industry and researchers together to commercialise new manufacturing products and processes.<br \/>\n\u201cMaking science and technology work for industry is one of the central pillars of our Government\u2019s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy and this fund is just one of the ways we\u2019re delivering on that,\u201d Minister Andrews said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison Government is positioning Australia\u2019s manufacturing industry at the cutting edge of innovation and this fund will help bring together the best of research and manufacturing capability to generate commercial outcomes.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know that by making our manufacturers more competitive and helping them to take on the world, we will create jobs for Australians \u2013 both for the COVID-19 recovery and for generations to come.\u201d<br \/>\nConsistent with all programs under the Modern Manufacturing Strategy, this fund will support projects within the Government\u2019s six National Manufacturing Priorities.<br \/>\nThese priorities are: Medical Products, Food and Beverage, Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Processing, Recycling and Clean Energy, Defence, and Space.<br \/>\nCommercialisation Fund grants will be between $100,000 and $1 million and must be matched by industry. These smaller-sized grants will complement the larger projects that will be supported through the $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative.<br \/>\nProjects must include collaboration with a research partner and a minimum of one industry partner.<br \/>\nThe fund will run over an 18-month period. The first round of funding, which opens today, will provide $20 million while a subsequent round will deliver the remaining $10 million.<br \/>\nThe fund will be managed and administered by the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC), in collaboration with the five other Industry Growth Centres AustCyber, Food Innovation Australia Ltd (FIAL), MTPConnect, METS Ignited and National Energy Resources Australia (NERA), and the CSIRO.<br \/>\nFor more information and to apply for a grant go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgc.org.au\/projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amgc.org.au\/projects\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morrison Government is supporting Australia\u2019s manufacturers to turn their good ideas into world-beating realities that create more local jobs, with a new $30 million fund. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said the Commercialisation Fund will foster projects that bring industry and researchers together to commercialise new manufacturing products and processes. \u201cMaking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/30m-grants-program-to-support-local-manufacturing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$30m grants program to support local manufacturing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}