The Future Cities CRC has been shortlisted for the Cooperative Research Centre Program where it has been invited to apply to Stage 2 of the application process.

The proposed CRC will be Australia’s national research and innovation hub for the future of cities.

The CRC will engage with government, industry and community to undertake research aimed at developing and implementing integrated science-based policy and practice solutions to current and future urban challenges.

The mission of the Future Cities CRC is to conduct high quality research which will enable Australian industry to be globally competitive, to take new products to market and make our cities and regions more productive, sustainable and liveable.

The programs of the Future Cities CRC will address:

• Program 1: Smart Connected Places will address current technological shortcomings by developing next generation smart sensors and cyber-safe smart solutions for cities including 5G enabled systems and AI led solutions.
• Program 2: Efficient integrated infrastructure will tackle efficiency, integration, finance, regulatory and sustainability and resilience challenges of city infrastructure and assets.
• Program 3: City analytics and foresighting will address the transition from big data to intelligible information and actionable knowledge to enhance design, planning and policy innovations.
• Program 4: Liveable cities and regions will shift cities from technocratic to truly technology enabled, problem-driven and community-oriented ones.

More information here

View the Future Cities CRC bid highlights here