Grant Award View - GA201249

‘Making the Future Change Agents Today’ (MFCAT) is an educational and networking platform where diverse women in innovative and knowledge-intensive industries (including high value-added market service industries such as finance, insurance, business services and telecommunications) across Japan and Australia can develop digital skills, leadership, and advance international partnerships critical for navigating economic growth, engagement, and COVID-19 recovery. Recognising the strength of drawing on traditional and contemporary learning systems, the program will feature networking, masterclasses, and speakers from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds, learning more from diverse women’s business and cultural practices. An opportunity to promote Australian excellence, the MFCAT platform will host video case studies of Australian Indigenous women entrepreneurs. These videos will be filmed on Country by an indigenous filmmaker, and will include Australian Indigenous entrepreneurial storytelling. This will help in the creation of a richer, more multicultural environment enabling Japanese women entrepreneurs to learn of different ways to approaching and/or operating business. MFCAT will also engage Japanese and Australian women interested in growing collaborative innovations, entrepreneurship and research pathways through masterclasses, fireside-chats, personalised mentoring and skills toolkits. MFCAT will develop transnational skills and networks, enabling people-to-people and business linkages to develop, supporting greater Australian-Japanese economic engagement.