Australia India Centre Invites Applications for Maitri Grants 2025, The Maitri Grants, administered by the Centre, aim to strengthen collaboration and exchange between Australian and Indian cultural, educational, research, and business communities, fostering deeper mutual understanding.
For 2025–26, the Maitri Grant Program has been expanded, with more than $5 million allocated to support projects that enhance the Australia–India partnership in innovative ways across multiple sectors.
The program focuses on four key pillars:
- Enhancing India-related business literacy and connections
- Promoting policy dialogue
- Engaging Indian Australian communities to support bilateral relations
- Strengthening cultural ties and mutual understanding
Through this initiative, the Centre encourages impactful and creative projects that showcase the evolving Australia–India relationship, fostering long-term connections in trade, education, research, innovation, arts, and culture.
Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the full details and submit their applications before the specified deadline to seize this grant opportunity.
Last Date of Submission: 4th November 2025
FOCUS AREAS
(Australia India Centre Invites Applications for Maitri Grants 2025)
The Centre is seeking to fund projects that will:
- drive new areas of business engagement between Australia and India in sectors outlined in A New Roadmap for Australia’s Economic Engagement with India, including the four superhighways of growth and other key priorities:
- clean energy to further advance and deliver supply chain resilience
- utilising education and skills to support research into new avenues for industry collaboration and opportunities to commercialise Australia’s technical capability with India
- identify and provide education and opportunities for businesses without mature existing channels for market access, including SMEs and First Nations businesses
- agri-tech to further leverage the benefits of our economic cooperation under the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA)
- initiatives that will enhance uptake of tourism
- activities that support sports collaboration to generate economic engagement, including leveraging Australia’s experience in delivering Commonwealth and Olympic Games.
- and further deliver high impact cultural, and people to people projects, activities and exchanges that may:
- build India capability at major Australian cultural institutions to improve mainstream understanding of India
- leverage/raise awareness of the Audiovisual Co-production agreement
- harness diaspora influence to promote the Australian Indian relationship, including the Indian economic opportunity
SELECTION CRITERIA
(Australia India Centre Invites Applications for Maitri Grants 2025)
All applications to the Maitri Grant Program must demonstrate their alignment to four key selection criteria:
- How will the project contribute to the intended objectives and outcomes of this opportunity?
- How effective and efficient will the applicant be in delivering the grant?
- How will the activity’s impact be maximised and deliver sustainable outcomes beyond Maitri funding?
- How innovative is the project?
- In addition to the selection criteria, applications will be compared against each other to assess value for money and ensure diversity in the spread of projects.
ELIGIBILITY
(Australia India Centre Invites Applications for Maitri Grants 2025)
- Applications may be submitted by one entity or a consortium of partners. Applications may be submitted by businesses, non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, or other entities.
- Applicant organisations can originate from any country; however, they must be able to operate in Australia.
- Applicant organisations need to be able to meet the requirements of DFAT’s due diligence process, including:
- ABN registration with a business or other recognised registration/accreditation body
- Not listed on sanctions lists, including those published by the Australian Government, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or the Inter-American Development Bank.
- Other background criminal and reputational checks.
How to apply?
The below dates are indicative only and subject to change.
16 September 2025: Applications open.
04 November 2025: Deadline for submission of concept notes at 5:00pm AEDT.
December 2025/January 2026: Successful proposals are selected and proceed to due diligence and contracting.
April 2026: Implementation begins.
Please apply via SmartGrants by clicking the following link: 2025-26 Maitri Grant Program
The Grant Guidelines can be viewed by clicking on the Download link below.
Email us at MaitriGrants@dfat.gov.au with any questions.
Get full access to the grant information, visit the Official Website Link
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