In-Market Experience Scholarships
The 2007 round of the In-Market Experience Scholarships is now open.  The 2007 round will close 5.00pm EST 19 July 2007. Each scholarship of $12,500 will help managers or emerging managers from small-to-medium sized agribusiness work for 3 months to 1 year to:
  • define opportunities for their product, service or technology
  • fully participate in alliances
  • build relationships with potential customers
  • undertake business- or sector-specific courses
  • gain experience in new areas of business and markets,
  • and seek expert advice.

 

Recipients develop their own program of in-market visits and research and select courses suited to their needs. Activities may include formal education, general business and sector-specific training, attendance at trade shows and conferences, as well as other in-market research and consultancies relating to commercialising new opportunities.

 

When you apply you must:

  • be able to demonstrate your commitment to developing a new agribusiness
  • opportunity
  • have the skills (or the ability to acquire them)
  • be prepared to commit the time to satisfactorily completing the research and business planning anticipated in your proposal
  • be prepared to write a report on the lessons you have learned and the outcomes of your scholarship
  • be prepared to share information about your project with others involved in new industry development in Australia.

 

You are eligible to apply if you:

have a new innovative agribusiness product, service or technology, and are a manager or a senior employee of a small-to-medium sized agribusiness in Australia in which effective control is exercised by a person or people ordinarily resident in Australia, and need to develop new skills, contacts and source information to help commercialise your new product, service or technology.

 

You can use your In-Market Experience Scholarship funds to cover the costs of:

education and training, domestic and overseas travel, accommodation and out-of-pocket expenses, marketing analysis and business planning, and other activities associated with research, trialing and collecting information to help complete the project.

 

Guidelines and Application Form are available at www.daffa.gov.au - search "in market experience scholarships".