Dept of Industry funds 21 CRC-Ps

February 15, 2024
Gregor Ferguson
News

The Department of Industry will spend $51 million funding 21 Cooperative Research Centre Projects (CRC-P), including a number that have Defence or security applications. The CRC-P program is designed to support collaboration between industry and researchers on breakthrough projects with potential to transform industries and create jobs.

The 21 grants support exceptional industry-led projects with promising commercial potential that solve a wide range of community and economic challenges, from diagnosing life-threatening infections more quickly to innovative environmental recycling processes. The projects involve 91 project partners across Australia, including 60 Australian industry partners of which 49 are small or medium enterprises, as well as 26 Australian research organisations.

Since the CRC Program commenced over 30 years ago, the Australian Government says it has committed more than $5.8 billion to establish 238 CRCs and 253 CRC Projects, leveraging a further $17.4 billion in cash and in-kind contributions from collaborating partners from industry, research, government and community organisations.

The successful CRC-P projects include:

Title	Partners*	Total Grant Amount	Total Project Value
A digital manufacturing platform for high-performance composite structures	New Frontier Technologies Pty Ltd Geodrones Australia Pty Ltd Australian National University	$1,239,431	$3,119,131
Airborne quantum sensors for resources and environmental monitoring	Q-CTRL Pty Ltd CMG Operations Pty Ltd Australian National University	$2,005,463	$4,311,854
World-first compact 3D LiDAV: High Precision Navigation Everywhere	Advanced Navigation Pty Ltd University of Technology Sydney CMG Operations Pty Ltd	$1,064,739	$3,198,982
SiPHyR: A new technology for affordable net-zero hydrogen production	1414 Degrees Limited The University of Adelaide Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Vulcan Steel (Australia) Pty Ltd Woodside Energy Technologies Pty Ltd	$2,500,000	$5,224,100
Vertiia eVTOL Autonomous Firefighting Trials	AMSL Aero Pty Ltd The University of Sydney Mission Systems Pty Ltd Pay’s Air Service Holdings Pty Ltd	$3,000,000	$7,044,155
Automated infection diagnostics for safe and healthy communities	Avicena Systems Ltd Biopoint Pty Limited Department of Defence St Vincent’s Care Service Ltd Healius Pathology Pty Ltd University of New South Wales	$3,000,000	$7,043,684
Commercialisation of an Automated Mobile EOL Solar PV Panel Recovery Plant	KGM Services Pty Ltd Circular Solar Solutions Pty Ltd Deakin University The University of Newcastle C & C Bruin Enterprises Pty Ltd	$1,200,000	$2,928,606
Upscaling a Novel Technology for Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries	Oxleigh Pty Ltd University of New South Wales Scimita Operations Pty Ltd Envirostream Australia Pty Ltd Worley Services Pty Limited	$2,746,355	$8,097,242
Large-scale manufacturing of complex microbial therapeutics	Cost-Bry Pty Ltd Global Life Sciences Solutions Australia Pty Ltd Monash University	$2,147,887	$5,371,031
Ultrasound commercialization to deliver a novel product for cannulation	Veintech Pty Ltd South Metropolitan Health Service Design & Industry Pty Ltd Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Curtin University	$1,745,362	$4,213,500
Advanced wireless charging infrastructure to electrify heavy-duty vehicles	Ace Infrastructure Pty Ltd Sea Electric Pty Ltd Fleet Plant Hire Limited Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Swinburne University of Technology Siemens Ltd ARRB Group Ltd Net Zero Stack Pty Ltd	$3,000,000	$8,235,894
Improving Health Outcomes with a Smart Wearable Drug Delivery System	Remagine Labs Pty Ltd The Trustee for AK Clinical Trust University of Melbourne Monash University	$3,000,000	$7,569,100
DFNDR: Adaptive Cyber Security for Defence & Critical Infrastructure SMEs	Ionize Pty Ltd Cybermerc Pty Ltd University of Canberra	$3,000,000	$6,493,243