Project number: 2022-207
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $670,000.00
Principal Investigator: Lindsay Hermes
Organisation: Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2023 - 3 Apr 2025
Contact:
FRDC

Need

This project provides the resources for ASSA to undertake key, critical path activities to help grow the Australian seaweed industry over the next 2 years (until 31 March 2025), which is the stipulated grant duration. The project will provide the funding for ASSA to engage key personnel to manage and deliver the activities required in three core areas:
- Governance, Reporting, Communications and Stakeholder Engagement
- Seaweed Policy Reform, including coordination and participation in a Working Group
- R&D Coordination and Optimisation, including maintaining a programmatic view of the R&D landscape, identifying and optimising extension opportunities and working with industry stakeholders and funding bodies to help ensure investment is optimised

Objectives

1. Develop detailed work plans for each stream (Comms and Engagement
Policy Reform and R&D Coordination)
2. Establish Governance Forums and TOR for governance of projects with FRDC
3. Work with FRDC to develop and complete reports for reporting of projects
4. Work with the Policy Reform Working Group, which comprises representatives of the State Government Aquaculture Regulators to progress policy reform
5. Develop and maintain a comprehensive portfolio view of all seaweed industry R&D initiatives around the country
6. Develop and maintain a database of all industry participants across industry, research, supply chain partners and government
7. Develop a Communications and Engagement Strategy and Action Plan.
8. Deliver communications and engagement events and activities in line with the Action Plan
9. Provide milestone reporting of technical and financial progress to FRDC against workplans, identifying achievements and challenges, and budgets
10. Work with the consultant employed by FRDC towards the end of the project to facilitate the production of a cost – benefit and impact analysis of relevant projects, particularly in helping coordinate researcher and industry engagement and input

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