DEADLINE: CSIRO Innovate to Grow: Critical Minerals

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is inviting small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to apply for its free eight-week online program, Innovate to Grow: Critical Minerals.

The program helps SMEs with innovative ideas investigate new research and development (R&D) opportunities, refine their concepts and better position themselves for growth in Australia’s critical minerals sector.

CSIRO’s Innovate to Grow: Critical Minerals is open to SMEs developing or supplying solutions in the following sub-sectors:

• Discovery
• Hard rock mining
• Processing
• Sensing and sorting
• Characterisation
• Sustainable mining technologies
• Battery technology
• Other

Application deadline extended to 28 September 2025