COALAR
Discretionary Grants
Recipient |
Grant Title |
Grant Description |
Approval |
AUD Amount |
Beta Rho Consulting Services Pty Ltd |
Australian Latin American Leadership Program |
A mid-career leadership development experience designed to nurture and cement Australian and Latin American relations. |
21/08/08 |
$60,000 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia-Latin America Mining Summit 2009 |
5 day summit of presentations and workshops conducted by globally recognised leaders from industry and researches in the mining and related fields from Australia and Latin America. |
21/08/08 |
$10,000 |
The Trustee for Media Giants Unit Trust |
Little Big Shots International Film Festival for Kids |
Curate a package of 10 Australian short films, for children aged 7-15, to tour in Colombia and Venezuela. |
21/08/08 |
$16,461 |
Australian National University |
ANCLAS Visiting Chair of Latin American Studies |
Sponsor a Visiting Chair within ANCLAS in 2009 to provide public lecture and seminar series, to lead a master classes in his/her field of study to broaden awareness of Latin America and interest in Latin America studies in Australia. |
21/08/08 |
$25,000 |
AFS Intercultural Programs Australia |
AFS/COALAR High School Soccer Exchange Scholarship Program |
Sponsorship of five Australian high school students with a unique life-changing intercultural learning and sporting opportunity in either Argentina or Brazil. |
21/08/08 |
$35,000 |
University of Tasmania |
Joint Education Program in Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies |
Sponsorship of a joint education program between the University of Tasmania and the Universidad de Magallanes, Chile, to allow both undergraduate and post graduate participation. |
21/08/08 |
$30,000 |
Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University |
Book: Advancing Australia's Strategic Interests in Latin America |
Production of eleven essays dealing with a dimension of Australia's strategic interests in and with Latin America. |
21/08/08 |
$60,000 |
University of Queensland |
Uruguay: Sustainable Mining Project |
Scoping mission to define a work plan to establish a satisfactory regulatory framework for mining activities that will ensure long term environmental sustainability in an emerging Uruguay mining industry |
15/05/08 |
$15,000 |
Mr Gary O’Riordan |
Australian Tourism Export Council Trade Mission to Latin America |
Networking events to enhance the ATEC Trade Mission for Australian based businesses involved in inbound tourism targeting the markets of Chile, Argentina and Brazil |
09/05/08 |
$16,500 |
Ms Erin Brannigan |
ReelDance 2008 |
Attendance of Eduardo Bonito at ReelDance Festival as part of the International Committee of Curators |
05/05/08 |
$2,550 |
Austmine Ltd |
Austmine Mission |
Austmine Mission to Chile and Brazil by eleven Australian mining technology and services companies |
12/03/08 |
$18,060 |
Crawford Fund |
ABC TV Landline documentary |
Production of a short documentary on the International Year of the Potato in Peru |
12/03/08 |
$7,700 |
Tourism Australia |
Australian Tourism Exchange Promotion |
Hosting of Latin American buyers at the ATE promotion in Perth |
12/03/08 |
$10,000 |
Tourism Australia |
Translation of Brochure |
Translation of “Experience Australia’ into Spanish |
12/03/08 |
$8,500 |
Embassy of Chile |
Mapuche Poetry Book Project |
Sponsor two Chilean Mapuche Poets to visit Australia for the launch of the Australian Aboriginal and Chilean Mapuche Poetry Book launch |
01/02/08 |
$5,000 |
ASSITEJ |
16th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival |
Participation by a renowned Latin American playwright and theatre director and two ‘next generation artists’ in high profile activities during the 16th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival – Adelaide 9-18 May 2008 |
01/02/08 |
$14,000 |
Australia-Brazil Chamber of Commerce |
Minas Gerais State Trade Mission 2008 |
Organisation of a trade mission from Brazil including seminars, events, meeting with business and government in Australia. |
01/02/08 |
$15,000 |
Ms Maggie Ferguson |
Connecting Latin America and Australia through Tango Music |
Ms Ferguson is committed to communicating the essence, history and performance skills of tango music to Australian and Argentine audiences and music students through educational institutions. |
01/02/08 |
$2,566 |
Department of Education, Science and Training - Commonwealth |
Visit of Professor Bruce Chapman to Latin America - Additional Funds |
Visit of Professor Bruce Chapman to Chile, Colombia and Mexico to present a series of seminars on senior education officials on Australia's experience with HECS |
18/12/07 |
$2,500 |
