MBIE projects
Current major contracts with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) funds mission-led research to address issues of economic, environmental and/or social importance to New Zealand. MBIE contracts often involve end-users such as industry partners, government agencies and local authorities. Many projects support postgraduate students, providing invaluable experience for the students while increasing the pool of future research leaders.
| Contract Name | Duration | Project Leader | Contract Value |
| Restoring Urban Nature | 2021-2026 | Prof Bruce Clarkson | $10,069,140 |
| Quantifying past rainfall and climate extremes in New Zealand | 2021-2024 | A/Prof Adam Hartland | $1,000,000 |
| An ecosystem modelling platform to assist New Zealand lake management | 2021-2024 | A/Prof Deniz Ozkundakci | $999,999 |
| Ahuora: Delivering sustainable industry through smart process heat decarbonisation | 2020-2027 | Prof Michael Walmsley | $12,499,224 |
| Reducing flood inundation hazard and risk across Aotearoa New Zealand | 2020-2025 | Prof Iain White (Subcontract) | $3,000,000 |
| Amiomio Aotearoa – A circular economy for the wellbeing of New Zealand | 2020-2025 | Prof Kim Pickering | $10,939,795 |
| Working to End Racial Oppression | 2020-2025 | Dr Waikaremoana Waitoki | $10,030,790 |
| Tikanga in Technology: Indigenous approaches to transforming data ecosystems | 2020-2024 |
A/Prof Māui Hudson |
$6,007,259 |
| Cyber Security Research Programme - Artificial intelligence for Human-Centric Security | 2020-2023 | Dr Vimal Kumar | $2,050,669 |
| Public Housing and Urban Regeneration | 2020- 2023 | Prof Mark Apperley (Subcontract) | $122,053 |
| He Kainga Pai Rawa: Building Community Research Capacity for Housing | 2020-2022 | Prof John Oetzel | $99,948 |
| Time-Evolving Data Science / Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Open Environmental Science (TAIAO.ai) Data Science Platform | 2019-2026 | Prof Albert Bifet | $13,000,000 |
| Turning the tide on prison violence | 2019-2024 | Dr Armon Tamatea | $3,916,045 |
| Halving rural and Maori community wastewater treatment costs: Mainstreaming novel eco-cultural technologies | 2019-2024 | Dr Mark Lay (Subcontract) | $500,000 |
| A new method for measurements of muddy suspended sediments in aquatic environments | 2019-2023 | A/Prof Julia Mullarney | $1,000,000 |
| Evaluating earthquake risk using liquefied volcanic-ash layers in lakes | 2019-2023 | Prof David Lowe | $1,000,000 |
| User-friendly deep learning | 2019-2022 | Prof Geoffrey Holmes | $1,000,000 |
| Decision automation for orchards and vineyards | 2018-2023 | Prof Mike Duke (Subcontract) | $3,076,372 |
| Identifying solutions for using personal monitoring to support workers in hazardous industries | 2018-2022 | Dr Judith Bowen | $999,993 |
| Omnidirectional earthquake isolation system | 2018-2022 | Prof Sinniah Ilanko | $993,612 |
| Harnessing marine invasive allelochemistry to fast track bioactive applications | 2018-2022 | Prof Chris Battershill | $999,993 |
| New approaches to detect invasive fish | 2018-2021 | Dr Clare Browne | $1,000,000 |
| Eye on lakes: national monitoring of cyanobacterial blooms | 2018-2021 | Prof Ian Hawes | $1,000,00 |
| Total (excl. GST) | $84,304,892 |