ASEAN-Australia Centre 2025-26 Grants Program

Overview

The priority areas for the Centre’s grants program change from year-to-year. For the 2025-26 grants opportunity, the Centre welcomes applications in line with the Centre’s mission and pillars in the following streams: Stream 1 - Creative industry initiatives to facilitate professional and creative exchanges, residencies and collaborations between Australia and the region, including, but not limited to, Australian artists with Southeast Asian heritage, and First Nations artists. Stream 2 - Projects that involve Australians of Southeast Asian heritage to advance engagement with Southeast Asia and increase awareness of the value diaspora brings to this engagement, including projects that promote and support engagement in business, higher education, science, sport and civil society.  Stream 3 - Research (by private or public institutions) aimed at supporting Australian companies’ access to and understanding of trade and investment opportunities in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on projects that:  investigate new strategies for Australian companies to engage with, export to and invest in Southeast Asia, disseminate case studies or research on resilient supply chains, trade diversification, skills exchange, or emerging sectors where Australia and Southeast Asia can collaborate for mutual benefit and draw on public and private data sources to measure and analyse the position of Australian companies in the region (including relative to likeminded countries), and present those findings publicly.  The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to: build business, cultural and community links between Southeast Asia and Australia.