Australia-Indonesia Centre Research Report 2015
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posted on 2017-02-07, 05:46 authored by The Australia-Indonesia CentreThe Australia-Indonesia Centre has achieved levels of bi-national collaboration that mark us as a genuine contributor to science and economic diplomacy and as a unique co-creator of knowledge and innovation.
In 2015, the Centre’s research goal of tackling shared problems through highly collaborative research was pursued with vigour. Indeed, the notion and value of sharing was deemed paramount, and demonstrated by:
Shared challenges: The AIC established interdisciplinary research clusters and other significant initiatives to address shared challenges in:
• providing affordable sustainable energy to all
• developing sustainable resilient ports and cities
• supporting approaches to address the primary prevention of non-communicable diseases, and
• improving food processing and agricultural value chains.
Shared funding: Australian funding of AIC activity was supplemented by co-investment by the Indonesian government through its Ministry for Research, Technology and Higher Education.
Shared expertise: Each and every AIC project assembled a team of researchers from at least one Australian and one Indonesian partner university.Shared leadership: Every stage of AIC governance contributed to a strong foundation for high quality, high impact research through the bi-national membership and direction.
The research outlined in this 2015 Research Report shows promise to generate important outcomes for government, business and community stakeholders alike. In some cases outcomes are already being realised and have been rewarded with co-investment or the knowledge that the research has informed policy and management practice or shone light on the causes of and the potential solutions to our shared challenges.
