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On August 22 and 23, over 220 academics, researchers, and industry and government figures convened at Surabaya’s Universitas Airlangga for the 3rd Indonesia-Australia Research Summit. Presented by the Australia-Indonesia Centre and the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of Indonesia (RISTEK-DIKTI), the theme of the summit was ‘Innovating Together: Starting local, reaching global’. The summit featured keynote addresses from prominent identities, including Surabaya’s pioneering mayor Ibu Tri Rismaharini; RISTEK-DKTI Secretary General Ainun Na’im; Australia’s Ambassador to Indonesia, His Excellency Paul Grigson; EY Sweeney CEO Marc L’Huillier, University of Zurich Future Cities Laboratory Programme Director Professor Stephen Cairns; and Australian Academy of Sciences Fellow Dr John O’Sullivan. Concurrent research stream sessions also featured. Delegates shared insights across the areas of health, energy, infrastructure and urban water research. Discussions were held on joint competitive advantage in international trade. Innovation strategies between government, industry and academia were explored. And higher degree research students and academics workshopped capacity building strategies. The aim of the summit was to showcase and strengthen collaboration between Australia and Indonesia, and to share these innovations with the world.

To address the challenge of establishing a sustainable and engaged network the Australia-Indonesia Centre facilitated an inaugural program for a Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Network (GRIN) - a network made up of post graduate students based at an Australian or Indonesian university. The aim of the GRIN initiative is to establish informal connections across the Centre’s Research Clusters through early career researchers, research students, their supervisors and others working across the AIC research group where knowledge sharing on research training and development, options and opportunities for research development and further collaborative linkages can be enhanced.The inaugural program was run from 24 November 2016 - 2 December 2016.