Deadline: November 04, 2025
The 2025-26 Maitri Grant Program offers over $5 million to support projects enhancing the Australia-India relationship across cultural, educational, research, and business communities.
The program focuses on building India business literacy and links, promoting policy dialogue, engaging Indian Australian communities, and deepening cultural connections and mutual understanding.
The Centre for Australia-India Relations is seeking projects that drive new business engagement in sectors outlined in A New Roadmap for Australia’s Economic Engagement with India, including clean energy for supply chain resilience, education and skills supporting industry collaboration and commercialization, opportunities for businesses without mature market channels including SMEs and First Nations businesses, agri-tech leveraging the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), tourism uptake, and sports collaboration leveraging Australia’s major event experience. Additionally, the program supports high-impact cultural and people-to-people projects such as building India capabilities at Australian cultural institutions, raising awareness of the Audiovisual Co-production agreement, and harnessing diaspora influence to promote the Australia-India economic relationship.
Applicants can be businesses, NGOs, academic institutions, or other entities from any country able to operate in Australia and meeting due diligence requirements including ABN registration and background checks.
The Maitri Grant Program encourages impactful and innovative partnerships reflecting the dynamism of Australia-India bilateral ties, fostering lifelong connections in trade, innovation, research, arts, and culture to maximize sustainable outcomes.
For more information, visit Centre for Australia-India Relations.
