Australian Alumni Grants (AAG) foster Australia's active scholars and alumni community in Indonesia and support ongoing professional development for scholars and Australian alumni. Grants are provided for discrete activities that support scholars and alumni to:
- Strengthen their connections with Australia
- Apply new knowledge and skills within their organisations and professions
- Strengthen and leverage their networks
- Take up leadership opportunities and empower others to lead
- Collaborate with one another
Grants are for discrete activities that will have an immediate impact on specific outcomes. Grant-funded activities should have a clearly identified activity completion milestone.
Grant-funded activities should be undertaken within three months of the awarding of the grant with a clearly identified activity completion milestone.
The grant selection committee will give preference to grant proposals in the range of AUD 3,000-10,000. Funds for successful applicants will be provided as reimbursement for expenses paid by the grantee, or as payments directly to service providers. Advances will be considered but are less preferred.
Eligible activities include:
- Indonesia-Australia knowledge exchange activities or events, such as residencies, cultural festivals, trade shows or other collaborations that foster bilateral exchange.
- Workshops, conferences, seminars and professional networking events.
- Capacity building, mentoring or coaching.
- Academic research and research-related activities.
- Public awareness campaigns.
- Organisational or institutional strengthening.
- Community development activities.
- Activities that form part of an AAI short course award projects.
Please refer to the Grant’s Guidelines for more detailed information on eligible and ineligible activities.
The Australian Alumni Grants Assessment Committee will undertake merit-based assessment of eligible applications. The assessment will consider the merit of the proposed grant funded activities using the following criteria:
- Alignment with Grants eligible activities listed above.
- Potential for the grant activity to reconnect the grantee/s with Australia.
- Potential for the grant activity to contribute to the grantee/s’ professional development.
- Alignment of the proposed activity with priority themes or initiatives that contribute to the Indonesia-Australia bilateral relationship.
- Simplicity: proposals should involve a minimal number of payments or transactions.
- Risk: proposed activities must not create unmanageable risks for the grantee, AAI, Australian Government or the government of Indonesia.
- Leveraging: evidence of third-party financial contributions is not essential but will be considered favourably.
Applicants will be invited to submit applications using this online application form. Applicants with disability are encouraged to inform AAI should assistance is required to fill out the online application.
Applications should address all the key questions written in the application form. Applications may be deemed ineligible if they are incomplete or do not address the selection criteria.
For queries, please contact us by email grants@australiaawardsindonesia.org and please use the subject line: “Queries - Grant and Prize and quote your application number".