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The Discovery Program aims to build Australia’s research capacity through support for international collaboration in research in priority areas and for research training and career opportunities for the best Australian and international researchers. Eligibility An application may only be submitted through the Research Office of an Eligible Organisation listed in the relevant Grant Guidelines. Discovery Program grant funds may be used for salary support, stipends, travels expenses, equipment etc. More information here

Watch a video of a keynote given by AFRAN member Emily Dotte-Sarout as part of a Symposium organised at the UNC in September 2019 (in French!) Emily presented some results of her previous postdoc in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology at the Australian National University with the CBAP team on the history of Francophone archaeology in the Pacific, in particular about the role of an important character in the history of New Caledonia (and of French anthropological thinking generally), the Pastor Maurice Leenhardt – the symposium was about his legacy. More about the CBAP - Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific

The Material Energy Research Laboratory in Nanoscale (MERLiN) at the University of New South Wales, led by Prof. Kondo-François Aguey-Zinsou, has developed a metal alloy to store hydrogen in solid form, in a material that can withstand large temperature variations, and prevent the risk of explosion. The group of researchers is now working on a pilot system capable of producing hydrogen via water hydrolysis from renewable energies, storing it with the help of their metal alloy, and then converting this hydrogen into electricity in a fuel cell, when is needed to take over intermittent renewable energies. This system would accumulate 60 kilowatt hours of energy, or 5 times more than a current l

Overview This year’s call seeks to further empower the AFRAN community by supporting initiatives that complement those already eligible for funding under the suite of cooperation support mechanisms provided by the French Embassy in Australia (e.g. mobility, internships, or workshops). In 2020/2021, we will thus fund initiatives or series of smaller, integrated initiatives (e.g. series of network building activities, one-off or series of collaborative research exhibitions or productions, symposia/workshops focussed on community development) designed to federate, build and scale up thematic communities around particular research and innovation areas within the perimeter of AFRAN and/or between

The SAAFE program supports Early Career Researchers at PhD and postdoctoral levels to travel from Australia to France, and from France to Australia, to initiate sustainable research networks and linkages to support Australia and France in research and innovation. Meltem Bayrak, PhD student of RMIT University and CSIRO, is seeking to better understand the role of food structure in controlling digestion, using gels of casein, a family of common milk proteins, as a model system. The SAAFE award will support her visit to the Joint Research Laboratory of Science and Technology of Milk and Eggs at INRAE-AGROCAMPUS OUEST in Rennes, France. There, Meltem will combine neutron-scattering data of the c

35th Anniversary Symposium of the Institute for the Study of French Australian Relations (ISFAR) 8-9 April 2021, RMIT University Call for Papers As two neighbouring middle-powers in the Pacific, France and Australia share a fruitful and complex relationship, rooted in a long history of engagement at local, regional and global levels. The 35 th anniversary of ISFAR provides an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of the study of that relationship over the last few decades. In a rapidly changing world, it is also an opportunity to discuss its future and, notably, the shift of focus to the study of French-Australian relations in the Indo-Pacific region. In recent years, the idea of the Indo-