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- Catalyst Fund Investment Plan 2024-2028
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Funded projects
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand–United States Biotech Digital Twin Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand–United States Joint Antarctic Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand – Korea 2025 Joint Research Partnerships Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2024
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Leveraging AI for Healthy Ageing 2025
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand – Singapore Biotech In Future Foods Research Programme 2025
- Catalyst: Strategic - Supporting HALO-South: New Zealand-German Climate Science Collaboration
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Japan Joint Research Programme 2024
- e-ASIA Joint Research Programme 2024
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2023
- Catalyst: Strategic – Australia New Zealand Collaborative Space Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – Abundant Intelligences Aotearoa
- Catalyst: Strategic – a quantum technologies research platform
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2022
- Catalyst: Strategic New Zealand–German Aerospace Centre Joint Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-DLR Joint Research Programme December 2020
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2020/2021
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Data Science Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Future Foods Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-China joint research partnerships 2019/2020
- Catalyst: Strategic – The Cyber Security Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – Space 2019
- Catalyst: Strategic – a collaborative biomedical science research programme with China
- Catalyst: Strategic – the New Zealand-China Research Collaboration Centres
- Catalyst: Strategic – Auckland Bioengineering Institute 12 Labours project
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Germany Green Hydrogen Research Programme
- Catalyst: Strategic – Investment in health-related A.I. research in partnership with Soul Machines
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand – NASA Research Partnerships 2023
- Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand – NASA Joint Research Programme in Earth Observation
- Catalyst Strategic performance areas and sample key performance indicators
Catalyst: Strategic – Abundant Intelligences Aotearoa
MBIE is investing $1 million over 4 years to support New Zealand’s participation in the Canadian-led Abundant Intelligences research programme.
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About this programme
This investment is hosted by Massey University.
Funding is being made available through the Catalyst Fund (Strategic) to support New Zealand’s participation in the Abundant Intelligences global research programme, in collaboration with international collaborators from Canada, Hawaiʻi and the United States. The goal of the programme is to advance methods for improving AI to better serve Indigenous communities and others. The research programme will explore and develop culturally-grounded AI systems that support Indigenous ways of knowing and recognize the many diverse forms of intelligence in the world.
Funded projects
Massey University
Contract duration: 1 June 2024 to 31 May 2028
Public statement
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to help us better understand, interact, and make sense of our world. The challenge ahead for Indigenous and Māori peoples is to think carefully about how to develop, integrate and advance systems like AI into our knowledge bases to support and create flourishing Indigenous communities. The overall objective of the Abundant Intelligences Aotearoa project is to explore a different way forward when working with AI for and with Indigenous communities, one that will help guide the development of AI both locally and globally. This ‘Catalyst’ connects our local team of experts with an international and interdisciplinary team of AI, Indigenous knowledge, and creative experts who form part of the ‘Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ Canadian-funded New Frontiers in Research programme.
Contact
Professor Hēmi Whaanga, Te Pūtahi a Toi, Massey University (h.whaanga@massey.ac.nz)