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Industry Kickstarter Grant scheme
The Industry Kickstarter Grant scheme offers your agribusiness or technology company the chance to collaborate with UQ academics on research with commercial impact.
By linking research with business, the 12-month grants are designed to help you find solutions to specific industry challenges.
Key dates
The third round of the Industry Kickstarter Grant scheme has now closed. Please visit this page at a later time for updates on any future rounds that may be announced.
Current funded Kickstarter projects
| Partner | Project description | Project lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bondi Labs | Digital twin of agrifood (horticulture and meat) supply chains (genetics-customer) | Professor Ryan Ko |
| Custard Apples Australia | Transforming propagation in Australia's custard apple industry | Dr Alice Hayward |
| East Forged Party Ltd | Integrated multi-omics for quality control, scale-up, and spent leaf value-add in Cold Brew Tea production | Professor Benjamin Schulz |
My Dilly Bag | Designing a seed nursery for an Indigenous community-based supply chain for Warrigal Greens | Dr Nicole Robinson |
| Cauldron Distillery and Winery | Decision support tools to support specialty smallholders and farm-gate producers | Dr Paul Melloy |
| Empathy Herbal | Explore and Validate the Therapeutic Benefits of Australian Aged Black Garlic | Professor Susanne Schmidt |
| Gelita | Enhancing product development processes | Dr Heather Shewan |
| Austranna | Advanced Primary Production (Protected Cropping) Industry embedded research translation facility | Professor Neena Mitter |
| Green Valley Fingerlimes | Exploration into the optimal storage and processing from the point of harvest through the whole supply chain of whole and extracted pearls of Australian native fingerlimes | Dr Lynn Hoffman |
| Hab Shifa | Black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) and its effects on poultry production and health | Dr Elham Assadi Soumeh |
| Peirsons Farms | Integrated Pathways at Kepnok (IP@K) | Dane Ivicevic |
| Scenic Rim Mushrooms | Solving the problem of single-use plastics in commercial mushroom farming | Dr Nasim Amiralian |
| Summerland Camels | Improving yield during processing of camel milk into cheese | Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal |
| Uuvipak | Improving the functional properties of citrus peels as bioplastic | Dr Vassilis Kontogiorgos |
| Working Title Brew Co | The evolution and role of wild Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus in beer gushing | Professor Ben Schulz |
| SoiLife | Customised microbial biofertilisers for Australian farms | Professor Susanne Schmidt |
| Ugly Duck Fine Foods | Evaluating the viability and quality of mayonnaise produced using pullet eggs: A comparative analysis with mature hen eggs | Dr Sangeeta Prakash |
| Reclaim Foods | Enhancing Nutritional Value of Surplus Bananas for Health and Aged Care Sectors | Associate Professor Nidhi Bansal |
| Denning’s Topical Herbal and Natural Products | Nanotechnology-Enhanced Herbal Solutions for Pathogen Control | Dr Li Li |