The Australia-India Strategic Research Fund, Round 10, offers an opportunity to undertake joint R&D work in the area of "Smart cities and infrastructure technologies (including urban design, sensor technologies, real time data and spatial analysis, transport systems, cold chain logistics and storage, and waste management)" (http://dst.gov.in/sites/default/files/Indo-Australia-call-for-proposal-Round-10-from-Indian-side%20%28Final%29.pdf). We want to work on and develop 'Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities', with a focus on food organics from point sources, i.e. high rise buildings, restaurants and schools / universities, and cover avoidance, collection, processing and beneficial use.

We do have industry links, but we do not have collaborators at Indian research organisations. Collaborators could be from the fields of waste management, urban planning, social sciences, sustainable development, smart cities. 

If you are interested and you think you can meet a very tight time line for developing a viable proposal, then please read the Guidelines (attached or on the Dept of Science and Technology website: http://www.dst.gov.in/international-st-cooperation)

Johannes Biala, Queensland University of Technology, Institute for Future Environments