{"id":33695,"date":"2025-07-13T18:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=33695"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:39:09","slug":"maitri-grants-recipients-announced-promoting-australia-india-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/maitri-grants-recipients-announced-promoting-australia-india-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Maitri Grants recipients announced promoting Australia\u2013India ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, I am pleased to announce the 34 recipients of this year\u2019s Maitri Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Maitri (meaning friendship) Grants, administered by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiaindiacentre.org.au\/\">Centre for Australia-India Relations<\/a>, aims to support greater exchange and collaboration with India across technology, business, education and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each project will cultivate deeper connections between our two countries, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Lowy Institute\u2019s first-ever India Chair, which will lift the quality of research and conversations around India\u2019s role as a major power in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best-practice playbooks by Asialink Business to support collaboration, capability training and the sharing of successful partnership models in cleantech and agtech.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A world-class exhibition featuring rare artworks by renowned Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An incubator of untold narratives from Australia\u2019s South Asian diasporas that will showcase Australian-Indian experience to global screen audiences, led by Bodhi Studios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024-2025 Maitri Grants also includes 13 Maitri scholarships supporting innovative research across fields such as quantum computing technologies and clean energy solutions and three Maitri fellowships dedicated to exploring opportunities between Australia and India in biomanufacturing, maritime cooperation and digital governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia and India\u2019s relationship is closer and more important than ever. We are deepening cooperation across priority sectors that are vital to both nations&#8217; futures, including in defence, trade, education, and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full lists of Maitri Grants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiaindiacentre.org.au\/GrantRecipients\/2025\">2024-25 Maitri Grants &#8211; general recipients<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiaindiacentre.org.au\/Scholars2025\">2024-25 Maitri Scholars<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiaindiacentre.org.au\/Fellows2025\">2024-25 Maitri Fellows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am pleased to announce the 34 recipients of this year\u2019s Maitri Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships. The Maitri (meaning friendship) Grants, administered by the&nbsp;Centre for Australia-India Relations, aims to support greater exchange and collaboration with India across technology, business, education and culture. Each project will cultivate deeper connections between our two countries, including: The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/maitri-grants-recipients-announced-promoting-australia-india-ties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maitri Grants recipients announced promoting Australia\u2013India ties&#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-33695","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\/33695","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=33695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33696,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33695\/revisions\/33696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}