| Period | Project name | About | Partners | Location | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Accelerating Innovation in Place | Collaborate with stakeholders from the food and agribusiness industry, research, education, government and community to drive collaboration, advance innovation and create a regional innovation ecosystem. | Food & Agribusiness Network Limited is partnering with: Sunshine Coast Regional Council; Moreton Bay Regional Council; Noosa Shire Council | Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay (Moreton Bay, Noosa and Sunshine Coast and Gympie) | $199,676 | 1 |
| 2022 | Gladstone Connects Supplier Platform | A virtual platform connecting large enterprise procurement and Gladstone SME engineers and manufacturers to create local innovative solutions to supply chain issues. | Gladstone Engineering Alliance Incorporated is partnering with: Rio Tinto Aluminium Limited; ConocoPhillips Australia Operations Pty Ltd; Central Queensland University; Gladstone Regional Council | Central Queensland (Gladstone) | $100,000 | 1 |
| 2022 | Strait approach to Business | Create a supportive network of small businesses and innovators to nurture great ideas, products and businesses in the Torres Strait region. | Gur A Baradharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council Torres Strait Islander Corporation is partnering with: Meriba Ged Ngalpun Mab; Palmer Consultancy; Department of Employment, Small Business and Training; Strait Experience | Far North Queensland (Thursday Island, Badu Island and Mer Island) | $152,840 | 1 |
| 2022 | LuminaX Health Accelerator | A program to refine and launch ten healthtech startups annually through fostering the emerging industries of healthtech, medtech and biotech. | Co Spaces Pty Ltd is partnering with: Bond University; Gold Coast City Council; 3M Australia Pty Ltd; Mater Misericordiae Ltd | Gold Coast | $150,000 | 2 |
| 2022 | Clinical Entrepreneurship Change Agents Program | A tailored entrepreneurial training, coaching, and student placements program to accelerate translation pathways for new digital health and medical technologies. Griffith University is partnering with Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service | Griffith University is partnering with Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service | Gold Coast | $200,000 | 2 |
| 2022 | Image-Guided Surgical Technologies Centre | An Asia-Pacific hub for training specialist physicians and developing minimally invasive surgical devices. | NeuTex Pty Ltd is partnering with: Gold Coast Private Hospital Pty Ltd; Gold Coast Hospital Foundation | Gold Coast | $200,000 | 2 |
| 2022 | Canvas to Catwalk | Deliver creative skills workshops to at least six remote Queensland communities, producing at least 20 new artworks for the purpose of fabric printing. | Red Ridge (Interior Queensland) Ltd is partnering with: Central West Aboriginal Corporation; RAPAD Employment Services Pty Ltd | Outback Queensland (Blackall, Longreach, Barcaldine, Birdsville, Windorah) | $60,000 | 2 |
| 2022 | Adapting a spatial irrigation tool | Adapt a spatial weather based irrigation scheduling and crop benchmarking tool that uses remote sensing to provide site specific crop management information across large scales and at low cost for tropical conditions, requiring minimal user input. | Mackay Canegrowers is partnering with Mackay Area Productivity Services and Sugar Research Australia. | Mackay | $200,000 | 3 |
| 2024 | Reality Academy: XR-Enhanced Health Education | The Reality Academy project is an initiative aimed at resolving pressing challenges in rural and remote healthcare across Australia, including skill deficits, accessibility, and high attrition rates among healthcare staff. Leveraging advanced Extended Reality (XR) technologies provided by Bundle of Rays, comprehensive, simulation-based clinical training tailored to healthcare professionals will be delivered in underserved rural communities. In addition to elevating healthcare, Reality Academy aims to also stimulate job creation and drive economic growth through cost-effective training solutions. | Bunde of Rays Academy Pty Ltd is partnering with Southwest Hospital and Health Service; Northwest Hospital and Health Service. | Sunshine Coast | $192,700 | 4 |
| 2024 | Q-SEED (Queensland Social procurement, Employment and Economic Development) Townsville | Q-SEED is an innovative, collaborative place-based approach strengthening economic outcomes and increasing job opportunities through the levers of local and social procurement. | Central Queensland University is partnering with the Trustee for ArcBlue Consulting Trust; Smart Precinct NQ Limited. | Townsville | $197,265 | 4 |
| 2024 | Supply Chain Readiness for Industry and First Nations business using a placed based approach | A place-based approach with a strong focus on supply chain readiness for First Nations businesses, individuals, SME s and aspiring entrepreneurs. Outcomes of the Project will be the greater inclusion and participation of First Nations businesses into the major industry and government supply chains across the Gladstone region / Central Queensland Renewable Energy Zone (REZ). The First Nations Chamber of Commerce and Industry is partnering with Port Curtis Coral Coast Trust; Gladstone Manufacturing Hub; Gladstone Engineering Alliance; Gladstone Chamber of Commerce and Industry. | The First Nations Chamber of Commerce and Industry is partnering with Port Curtis Coral Coast Trust; Gladstone Manufacturing Hub; Gladstone Engineering Alliance; Gladstone Chamber of Commerce and Industry. | Gladstone | $200,000 | 4 |
| 2024 | Fire Air Traffic Management Trial Phase 1.4 | Phase 1.4 of the Fire Air Traffic Management (FATM) Trial aims to safely integrate crewed aircraft (helicopters, planes) and drones in the same airspace over a fire, using technology to enhance current firefighting methods. The goal is to develop an Alternative Means of Compliance (AltMOC) for this purpose in a Fire Traffic Area (FTA). This project consists of conducting a flight test trial which introduces a crewed, firefighting aeroplane into the fire traffic area alongside drones and crewed helicopters, as well as supporting and assessing the operational deployment of the technologies and procedures previously developed in the FATM trials overhead a genuine fire, outside of a test environment. Noosa Shire Council is partnering with AAI Limited (Suncorp); Queensland Fire & Emergency Service. | Noosa Shire Council is partnering with AAI Limited (Suncorp); Queensland Fire & Emergency Service. | Sunshine Coast (Noosa) | $197,500 | 4 |
| 2024 | Regional Energy Transition Collaborative | This project will create Energy Transition Sites to develop, test, and implement comprehensive and innovative renewable energy solutions in the Ipswich region. By using several demonstration case studies and opportunities to develop, test, and implement the solutions, the project will ensure that the framework, model and solutions are able to be scaled and implemented more widely, providing both direct impacts for participants in the Ipswich region and create a legacy benefit for many other sites and zones across Queensland and Australia who are looking at solutions with a similar energy context. | Regional Development Australia Ipswich & West Moreton Inc is partnering with C S Energy Limited and Advancing Communities Australia Ltd. | Ipswich | $198,365 | 4 |
| 2024 | Employing Emerging Technologies for Surveying Torres Strait Marine Debris | This project will develop a service and capability in the Torres Strait to utilise emerging technologies (drones and AI) to survey the impact of marine debris on the health of the reefs and the effect of mitigating interventions to clean up pollution. | Salty Monkeys Pty Ltd is partnering with K. J. Ross & Associates Pty Ltd; Torres Strait Island Regional Council. | Torres Strait Islands | $200,000 | 4 |
| 2024 | Advanced Manufacturing Training Academy | This project will develop a training program to deliver courses on Advanced Manufacturing to help the region s local industry meet the expected growth, improve skills and employment opportunities for the Sunshine Coast region. | Sunshine Coast Maker Space Pty Ltd is partnering with TAFE Queensland; University of the Sunshine Coast. | Sunshine Coast | $200,000 | 4 |
| 2024 | Space to Sea: Accelerating the Geospatial Technology Industry on the Sunshine Coast | This project will grow Geospatial commercial and research capability by bringing together research with industry to understand areas for collaboration and enduring sector growth through an accelerator program. | The University of the Sunshine Coast is partnering with Sunshine Coast Council; Silicon Coast. | Sunshine Coast | $199,800 | 4 |
| 2024 | First Nations Futures Hubs | Enhancing Indigenous entrepreneurship and innovation in south east Queensland that leverages Indigenous knowledges and protocols with western entrepreneurship and design thinking frameworks to help create a strong independent Indigenous economy. | Indigenous Innovation Ventures Pty Ltd is partnering with Bond University and Underwood Innovation Lab Pty Ltd | Varsity Lakes, Gold Coast | $199,000 | 5 |
| 2024 | Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Student Team | Establishing a regional interdisciplinary eVTOL student team with mentors from industry and academia that will complete assembly, testing and design blueprints for a 5:1 scale prototype of an eVTOL with the aim to design/build/certify, and fly a full-scale aircraft for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics. | Manufacturing Excellence Forum (Sunshine Coast) Ltd is partnering with University of the Sunshine Coast, FAIT Corporation, Sunshine Coast Maker Space and Javelin Aerospace | Sippy Downs, Sunshine Coast | $200,000 | 5 |
| 2024 | Leveraging Collaboration to Address Regional Issues and Support Marginalised Groups in Queensland | Establishing a collaborative space where innovative solutions can be developed, tested, and implemented within a living lab framework to meet the specific needs of marginalised community groups (Forgotten Australians/Care Leavers, Homeless, First Nations People, Youth, Older People, People with Disability, Women, and Mental Health). | Global Community Resourcing Pty Ltd is partnering with Regional Development Australia Logan & Redlands Incorporated, Micah Projects Ltd, Endeavour Foundation and Hub 68 Pty Ltd | Ormiston, Redlands | $153,991 | 5 |
| 2024 | iSPARK Simulation Experiential Virtual Environment (EVE) | Delivering simulation capabilities to support science, health, emergency, defence, and research from a simulation facility with state of the art audio visual fitout combined with sensors, operating software and computing capacity and a dedicated Sim EVE in the iSPARK facility. |
NQ Spark Pty. Ltd. is partnering with Townsville City Council, Townsville Hospital and Health Service, Cubic Defence Australia Pty Limited, Ethan Global t/a Ethan SI Pty Limited and James Cook University | Townsville, North Queensland | $177,400 | 5 |
| 2024 | Encore for Innovation: Activating Tropical North Queensland Entrepreneurship | Inspire young people and aspiring innovators to create their own jobs and build successful, innovative businesses through a combination of theatre, robotics, and entrepreneurship that encourages participants to think creatively, embrace innovations, and take calculated risks to succeed. | Health Management Pty Ltd is partnering with JUTE Theatre Company | Cairns, Far North Queensland (including Douglas Shire, Tablelands, Mareeba Shire, Cassowary Coast) | $200,000 | 5 |
| 2024 | Greater Whitsunday Biomanufacturing Digital Visualisation | Profile the Greater Whitsunday region’s unique biomanufacturing credentials, as a ‘front-door digital experience’ for showcasing to potential proponents, investors, regional supply chain operators, education facilities and the broader community in order to accelerate economic diversification through this emerging industry. | Greater Whitsunday Alliance Limited is partnering with: Resources Centre of Excellence Ltd and Queensland University of Technology | Mackay | $92,935 | 5 |
| 2024 | Regional expansion of Mayi Market service to increase food security across Cape York. |
This project aims to expand Mayi Market to include delivery of food to new areas of Cape York communities at prices far below those of local stores. The project includes strategic planning for regional expansion and depend collaborations with partner organisations. The upgrades to warehousing facilities will serve as a central hub for storage and distribution, especially during crises like natural disasters. The expanded warehouse will also provide employment opportunities for young First Nations women at the Cape York Girl Academy. |
Cape York Solutions Limited, partnering with Foodbank Queensland Limited, FareShare Australia Incorporated, GIVIT Listed Ltd, Cape York Girl Academy Limited | Wangetti | $200,000 | 5 |
Last updated: 30 Sep 2024