Australia-ASEAN Council 2017 Supplementary Grant Round

Overview

The Australia-ASEAN Council's (AAC’s) mission is to increase knowledge and promote Australia's interests in South-East Asia by initiating and supporting activities designed to enhance awareness, understanding and links between people and institutions in Australia and ten South-East Asian countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The priority of the Special Australia-ASEAN Council grant round is to leverage the momentum of the Special Summit to generate increased enthusiasm and awareness about the ASEAN-Australia relationship, including: the strength of people-to-people connections, generated through migration, education and tourism the significance of trade and investment ties  – ASEAN is Australia’s third largest trading partner and fourth largest source of foreign investment the value of increased government-to-government engagement on regional strategic and economic issues. Preference will be given to applications which reflect the Special Summit’s theme of Enhancing regional security and prosperity and any of the following priorities for ASEAN-Australia cooperation: education economic cooperation and business linkages, particularly as these relate to the challenges and opportunities from digital transformation  cooperation on regional issues, including cyber cooperation, combatting human-trafficking and countering terrorism Activities to be funded could include: academic or think-tank discussions and exchanges community or public events media programming cultural events business or other networking events