Creating a better tomorrow, today

Providing powerful opportunities

Industry Partners

Vital to the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer, our partnerships with industry are building forward-thinking capabilities and creating lasting change. By leveraging funds, developing groundbreaking projects and advancing technology readiness, together we are accelerating the deployment of research and increasing business innovation across the nation.

Benefits include:

Direct access to researchers and innovators to de-risk new technology including the request of projects and having researchers work directly within your company for project delivery.

Boost productivity and build capability to create lasting change for your organisation

Access world-leading state-of-the-art technology such as the PX100 Digital Metal Binder Jet System through our multi-million partnership with CSIRO.

Develop and implement new ways of working to build specialised knowledge and job creation
Security and support of the Trailblazer Umbrella Agreement and Project Plan

National Industry PhD Program

Partner with Curtin through the National Industry PhD Program and connect your organisation with industry-focused research, emerging talent and collaborative innovation opportunities.

Industry partners can work alongside researchers and PhD candidates to solve real-world challenges, develop new capabilities and accelerate research impact across the resources and critical minerals sector.

Download the Industry Partner Guide to learn more about program streams, funding support and partnership opportunities.

Researchers

Empowered with greater collaboration opportunities and support of industry partners and universities, our researchers are delivering in-demand innovations. We support projects that develop new technologies that boost productivity and effectiveness to enable lasting change in the resources technology and critical minerals sector.

Benefits include:

  • Project proposal support and guidance from the Trailblazer team
  • Networking facilitation, includes connecting you with industry partners, assistance nurturing and developing industry relationships
  • Accelerated project delivery and implementation of new technologies to industry and beyond
Researcher Collaboration

Student Programs and Internships

Our student programs and internships are creating the next generation of industry-engaged innovators. By exposing them to the resources technology and critical minerals sector, students can extend their academic knowledge with real-world insights and specialised skill development.

HDR Student Research Internships

An excellent opportunity for HDR students to apply their research skills and theory in a practical manner.  By working with our industry partners on short-term projects, students can expand their industry network and enhance their employability.

60-Day PhD Internship

We partner with industry and the community to offer 60-day internships for PhD and professional doctorate candidates.  Students gain access to a broad range of expertise, specialised facilities, and multi-disciplinary networks.  Through the internship students are empowered to address real-world problems facing their industry or area of interest.

Student Programs and Internships

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Curtin University

The Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer is supported by the Australian Government Department of Education through the Trailblazer Universities Program.

The Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer acknowledges all First Nations people of the ancestral lands on which we operate. We pay our respects to all First Nations people, and to Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise their deep knowledge and their cultural, spiritual and educational practices, and aspire to learn and teach in partnership with them. We are committed to working in partnership with all Custodians and Owners to strengthen and embed First Nations’ voices and perspectives in our decision-making, now and into the future.

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