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Government announces successful Endeavour Fund 2022 winners

08 September 2022

The Government has announced that it has invested over $236.5 million in leading-edge research that will help to improve New Zealander’s lives through the Endeavour Fund process.

Science and technology

Launching the aerospace sector strategy

05 September 2022

The government today opened consultation on the Aotearoa New Zealand Aerospace Strategy at the inaugural New Zealand Aerospace Summit in Christchurch, with further financial support for the ambitions of the sector also being announced.

Space Agency

Research response to COVID-19 highlighted in new report

30 August 2022

The effective way our research, science and innovation sector responded to the COVID-19 pandemic has been showcased in a new report released today. The COVID-19 Research Response report outlines how innovative organisations have been supported over the past 2 years to produce world-leading research.

Science and innovation Science funding Science and technology

$5.1 million for research into artificial intelligence to improve health outcomes

19 August 2022

3 international research projects led by Aotearoa New Zealand research teams have been awarded a total of $5.1 million to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) could provide improved access to healthcare.

Science and innovation Science funding

$6.5 million to accelerate Māori research skills and opportunities

18 August 2022

The Government is investing $6.5 million over 6 years to accelerate skills and opportunities for Māori researchers, scientists and mātauranga practitioners, through the Kanapu programme, hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence.

Science and technology

NZ researchers partnering with international space company

29 July 2022

The Innovative Partnerships team at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has signed an agreement with United States commercial space company Axiom Space Inc that will help New Zealand researchers advance world-leading space science and technology

Space Agency

New eligibility criteria restricts science research funding that could contribute to Russia's war effort

22 July 2022

New eligibility criterion will prevent funding being granted to science research projects that could benefit a Russian state institution or an organisation outside government that may contribute to the war effort.

Science and innovation Science funding

Strengthening our international research, science and innovation relationships with Europe

04 July 2022

Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom have signed an arrangement to enhance research, science and innovation collaborations.

Science and technology

High level of support for improvements to research, science and innovation system

30 June 2022

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has today released a summary of submissions on Te Ara Paerangi – Future Pathways, a programme that opens a wide-ranging conversation on issues facing the research, science and innovation system.

Science and innovation Science funding

NZ space sector set to star in Moon mission

27 June 2022

The New Zealand space sector is set to star in NASA’s CAPSTONE moon mission – with Rocket Lab launching a satellite to the Moon from New Zealand in June, and the lift-off of a separate NASA-NZ lunar research project, New Zealand Space Agency Manager Andrew Johnson says.

Space Agency

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