Joint scholarships announced as renewables project scales up

FOLLOWING recent reports from regional investor, AgBioEn; regarding the tremendous success of their initial planting at Katunga, further investment in the large-scale renewable energy project, has just been announced.

In partnership with La Trobe University, AgBioEn will together fund three new PhD scholarship positions. Once selected, the students will engage with the current project team, and assist in the development and recording of new insights gained through this world-first, regenerative agriculture project.
Based at the Shepparton campus, the candidates will be committed to spending the duration of their four-year degree, invested specifically in the rapidly evolving, Katunga-based project.

The students will integrate with the existing team off students, academics and educators from La Trobe; and provide further research assistance using the project’s state-of-the-art technology and AI equipment, provided by the project’s third arm, leading Australian Technology innovators, LAB3.

The opportunity is one of enormous potential for the successful recipients, who will play a key role in gathering research and evidence to further assist in the development of future projects initiated by AgBioEn.
Pro-vice chancellor (research capability) and professor of microbiology at La Trobe, Ashley Franks, explained: “Industry PhDs are a highly effective way for student researchers to become deeply embedded in an organisation.

“This is an exception opportunity for local graduates to engage with such an innovative, world leading organisation, who are deeply invested in discovering alternative, sustainable solutions to real world issues.

“We’ll start recruiting in the coming months, and would be very pleased if the successful candidates come from within our region,” he said.