📢 Announcement for Macquarie University- Mahidol University
Seed Grant 2026 funding round

Macquarie University and Mahidol University have agreed to establish a competitive Seed grant program to enhance cooperation and collaboration between their researchers and those institutions. The scheme will have three funding rounds, one per year in the years 2025 to 2027.

Objectives:

• Encourage effective collaboration between academic teams from both institutions to drive exceptional research.
• Expand research initiatives in areas of shared interest, emphasizing scale and focus.
• Foster engagement at all academic levels by ensuring diverse compositions within research teams.
• Provide international research training opportunities.
• Establish a robust foundation for ongoing research collaboration, securing external funding.
• Support the formation of long-term strategic research alliances between the two universities.
• Actively promote and facilitate academic exchanges for research visits between both institutions.
• Amplify the visibility and global impact of collaborative research outputs through joint publications, resentations, and dissemination activities.

Funding information:

• Matched areas: Open for all disciplines.
• Funding Amount: Each selected project receives up to a total of AUD 20,000 (approximately THB 250,000 from Mahidol’s side).
• Eligibility: Academics employed at the Macquarie University and Mahidol University are eligible to apply.
• Project Structure: Each proposal must include a Chief Principal Investigator (Pl) from both the Macquarie University and Mahidol University.
• Application Limit: A faculty member may serve as a Chief Principal Investigator on only one application per cycle. However, there is no limit to the number of applications a faculty member may join as a (co-investigator) team member.
• Selection Process: Competitive selection process involving review committees fromi both of the universities