The AISRF is Australia’s largest bilateral science cooperation fund, helping to build links between Australia and India’s top universities and research institutions.
AISRF Grant Round 15 recipients will share $3.8 million to help support scientific projects and between the 2 countries.
Funding will go towards 5 projects, including:
- an AI platform to monitor soil health
- new ways to maximise the recycling of metal from discarded mobile devices
- using solar-thermal energy to create nanomaterials for better water treatment
- designing new antimicrobials to treat drug-resistant infections
- new ways to detect and treat bacterial infections.
Australian recipients are:
- the Australian National University
- Monash University
- the University of Adelaide
- the University of Queensland
- the University of Sydney.
The Indian Government will support the Indian partners in each project.