MELBOURNE, 13 July 2025: Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong has announced 34 recipients of this year’s Maitri Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships. Administered by the Centre for Australia-India Relations, aims to support greater exchange and collaboration with India across technology, business, education and culture.
The Maitri Grant Program 2024-25 provides up to $5 million to support projects that foster stronger Australia-India relations. The grants range from $50,000 to $2,000,000 and aim to build business, cultural, and policy partnerships. The program aligns with DFAT’s strategic objectives to enhance collaboration between both countries.
A glance at the details of recipients reveals, Maitri grants go to 18 recipients, 9 get the Maitri scholars grants, and three get as Maitri Fellows. The biggest grant of $ 850,000 goes to the Lowy Institute for International Policy for the ‘Creation of the India Chair and related program of world-class research on India’s emerging role in the Indo-Pacific and the world’.
A media release posted on the Minister Penny Wong’s website on 13 July, 2025, says:
“Each project will cultivate deeper connections between our two countries, including:
- The Lowy Institute’s first-ever India Chair, which will lift the quality of research and conversations around India’s role as a major power in the Indo-Pacific region.
- Best-practice playbooks by Asialink Business to support collaboration, capability training and the sharing of successful partnership models in cleantech and agtech.
- A world-class exhibition featuring rare artworks by renowned Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
- An incubator of untold narratives from Australia’s South Asian diasporas that will showcase Australian-Indian experience to global screen audiences, led by Bodhi Studios.
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.”
For the full lists of Maitri Grants:
