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Catalyst: Strategic – Australia New Zealand Collaborative Space Programme
MBIE and Smart Sat Co-operative Research Centre (SmartSat CRC) are co-investing in collaborative feasibility studies that contribute toward the growth of New Zealand and Australian space industries and develop capability for the Trans-Tasman space sector.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2023
MBIE has announced the 4 successful proposals for the 2023 Catalyst: Strategic investment under the New Zealand–China Strategic Research Alliance.
Catalyst: Strategic – a quantum technologies research platform
A 5-year quantum technologies research programme to increase international connectivity and domestic capability in this rapidly developing sector.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2022
MBIE has announced the 2 successful proposals for the 2022 Catalyst: Strategic investment under the New Zealand–China Strategic Research Alliance.
Catalyst: Strategic New Zealand–German Aerospace Centre Joint Research Programme
MBIE and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have announced eight collaborative projects under the NZ-DLR Joint Research Programme.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-DLR Joint Research Programme December 2020
MBIE has announced the 12 successful proposals Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-DLR Joint Research Programme December 2020
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2020/2021
An annual Call for Proposals for joint research projects with China in Food Science and Environmental Science.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Data Science Research Programme
MBIE has announced 4 successful proposals for an $11 million investment in data science with Singapore.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Future Foods Research Programme
A 3 year bilateral programme with Singapore, which jointly funds Future Foods research projects in areas of mutual importance.
Catalyst: Strategic - MethaneSAT atmospheric science project
MBIE is committing $6 million to support an atmospheric science research project using data from MethaneSAT.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2019/2020
MBIE has announced the two successful proposals for the 2019/20 Catalyst: Strategic investment under the New Zealand–China Strategic Research Alliance (SRA).
Catalyst: Strategic – The Cyber Security Research Programme
A joint programme with Australia, with the aim to develop high quality research in cyber security and also to support the cyber security industry.
Catalyst: Strategic – Space 2019
MBIE has announced the 6 successful proposals for the $3 million Catalyst Space investment in satellite and space vehicle technologies.
Catalyst: Strategic – NZ-Korea joint research partnerships
MBIE and the National Research Foundation of Korea have announced the three successful proposals to be funded under the 2021 Catalyst: Strategic New Zealand–Republic of Korea Joint Research Partnerships programme.
Catalyst: Strategic – a collaborative biomedical science research programme with China
An annual Call for Proposals for joint research projects with China in Food Science and Environmental Science.
Catalyst: Strategic – the New Zealand-China Research Collaboration Centres
Established in 2016, the New Zealand-China Research Collaboration Centres are a mechanism to align existing cooperation and build new connections between New Zealand and Chinese researchers. In 2020, their mandate was expanded to include the coordination and support of joint research projects with China.
Catalyst: Strategic – Auckland Bioengineering Institute 12 Labours project
MBIE has committed $15 million to support a world-leading project to develop a clinically-oriented framework for mathematically modelling the physiological systems of the human body.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Germany Green Hydrogen Research Programme
MBIE and the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research have announced 3 collaborative projects under the New Zealand–Germany Green Hydrogen Research Programme.
Catalyst: Strategic – Investment in health-related A.I. research in partnership with Soul Machines
MBIE has announced the 3 successful proposals under the $6 million investment in internationally connected research projects that will explore the potential applications of Soul Machines’ ‘Digital People’ TM Human OS Platform in an area of healthcare research.
Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand – NASA Research Partnerships 2023
MBIE is investing in 12 feasibility studies for the Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand – NASA Research Partnerships 2023
Catalyst: Influence
Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science
$600,000 over 5 years from June 2020 has been provided to the International Science Council to support the work (being led by the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi) of the Council’s Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science.
NZ-Australia Biobridge
The University of Auckland has received $180,000 to build a Biobridge to connect New Zealand and Australia’s healthtech ecosystems to effectively grow and scale their joint expertise globally. Austrade, the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies (CMDT) and the MedTech Centre of Research Excellence (MedTech CoRE) are involved.