Applications for the 2026 Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture Learning & Teaching Academy Collaborative Grants Scheme are now closed. 

A call for the 2027 round will occur in early 2027.

2026 Collaborative Grants

Embedding First Nations Knowledges in Australian Agriculture Curriculum: A Collaborative Case Study Approach

Project Lead: Dr Alison Colvin (UNE)

Collaborators: Professor Janelle Wilkes, UNE; Associate Professor Kara Barry, Dr Saideepa Kumar, UTas; Dr Rajendra Adhikari, UQ; Stacey Carter, Alaa Nayyef, Prof. Sarita Bennett, Assoc. Prof. Natalie Morgan (Curtin)

This project will strengthen educator capability through co-design and Indigenous engagement to document case studies aligned with national Threshold Learning Outcomes for Agriculture 2.0 ensuring respectful, authentic, and pedagogically sound inclusion of Indigenous knowledge related to agriculture and food systems.

Reimagining Assessment in the Age of AI: Building Authentic, Inclusive and Future-Focused Assessment Practices

Project Lead: Dr Alaa Nayyef (Curtin)

Collaborators: Stacey Carter, Assoc. Prof. Natalie Morgan, Prof. Sarita Bennett, Dr Jacob Hawkins, Dr Katherine Zulak, Dr Bec Swift, Dr Nicholas George, Dr Shahin Alam, Chris Antonio (Curtin); Dr Lea Labeur, Assoc. Prof. Wendy Vance (Murdoch); Dr Amy Tait, Dr Ivanah Oliver (UNE), Dr Peta Taylor (Melbourne), Dr Bec Forder (Adelaide)

This project will adopt a mixed-methods design-based research approach to develop and validate an evidence-based Agriculture Assessment Decision Framework (ADF) for the AI era.

Growing Open Agriculture: a collaborative Open Educational Resource (OER) for innovation in agriculture curriculum

Project Lead: Associate Professor Kim Johnson (La Trobe)

Collaborators: Prof Janelle Wilkes, UNE; A/Prof Angela Dean, University of Queensland; A/Prof Antony Gendall, La Trobe University; La Trobe eBureau / open education partners

A national Agriculture OER initiative that will build a Community of Practice, provide a national OER gap analysis, OER implementation roadmap, peer review and accessibility checklist and prototype OER for Agriculture.