Our industry partners

Over the years, MITI has partnered with a wide-range of Industry partners, providing Monash students the opportunity and to work on a diverse range of projects, whilst providing solutions to these host organisations biggest challenges. To discover our Industry partner projects view our project outcomes. Our 2021/22 industry partners are featured below.

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Kara House

Kara House is a specialist family violence service providing safe and secure accommodation and outreach services to women and children escaping family violence. We encourage and empower women to take control of their lives and work towards making strategies to create a better future.

2021/22 PROJECTS

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Bega

Bega Cheese Limited is a top 200 ASX listed company (ASX:BGA), that generates its revenue from the manufacture and sale of dairy and other food products in Australia and in over 40 export markets. The company employs approximately 2,000 staff and operates seven major manufacturing facilities across Victoria, NSW and QLD.

As part of the vision to become the Great Australian Food Company, Bega has undertaken a significant growth program in recent years. This has included several acquisitions, including a large dairy processing facility in Koroit in 2018 and the Mondelez meals business in 2017 (incorporating Vegemite).

Products include:

Cheeses in a variety of retail and food service formats, including cheddar, cream cheese and mozzarella;
Spreads such as Vegemite, Bega Peanut Butter and our new B Honey range;
Infant formula and bionutrient ingredients; and
Bega also manufactures of varieties of other dairy products such as milk powders and butter.

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Burra Foods

Burra Foods is an Australian dairy ingredient processor that for over two decades has been producing and marketing value-added dairy products to the global food manufacturing market.
Specialising in creating products that deliver the functional and sensory characteristics of fresh milk, we have significant international market experience and a reputation for being a reliable supplier of high quality dairy products. These include natural cheese, fresh milk concentrates, food preparations, specialty milk powders and fresh dairy ingredients.

Our manufacturing plant is located in the heart of South Gippsland at Korumburra, in south eastern Victoria, and we have offices in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

https://www.gardinerfoundation.com.au/miti/

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Fonterra Australia Pty Ltd

Fonterra is a global, co-operatively-owned company. Our Australian business is one of our largest and operates 6 manufacturing sites with 1,800 employees providing Australians the great-tasting dairy brands they know and love.
Fonterra Australia will collect approximately 2 billion litres of milk from more than 1300 dairy farms in 2018/19. This milk is processed across 6 manufacturing plants in Victoria and Tasmania to produce world class dairy products for Australian and international markets.

https://www.gardinerfoundation.com.au/miti/

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Mark Cullinan, Surgeon

Mark Cullinan is an Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgeon with special Interest in Liver, Pancreatic and Biliary Cancers.

VIEW 2021/22 PROJECTS

  • Project Multi (2021-22)
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Monash University

At Monash, the desire to make a difference informs everything we do.

But we go beyond good intentions. We make an impact, both locally and internationally. We are a global university with a presence on three continents. And our plans for the future are ambitious.

We have four local campuses throughout Victoria, an international campus in Malaysia, and centres in the People's Republic of China, Italy and India. Each provides an environment that identifies and nurtures talent – and turns that talent into ability.

We believe the best way to help our people meet the challenges they face is to provide a supportive environment. We champion and support our students so they have a memorable university experience. It's a friendly university – no matter which campus you attend.

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NTT Data

NTT DATA, as part of the NTT group, is a global business committed to making life better through technology and innovation. We are experts in managing services contracts and are system integrators, which means we are not wedded to one infrastructure or technology provider, but instead source products from different companies to fit individual situations. We integrate leading technology and the latest hardware to create world-class platforms that can expand and adapt as required. We’re known for our proven expertise in industries like healthcare, financial services, insurance, manufacturing and the public sector, but particularly transit.

NTT DATA has become a long-term partner to Victorian Department of Transport, operating Melbournes public transport ticketing system, known as myki. The myki ticketing system is one of the largest mass transit smartcard projects in the world. The solution is scaled for more than 20 million smartcards that are used for more than 25,000 devices located on trains, trams, and buses, distributed across metropolitan and regional areas, whilst also supporting over 600 retail locations. The NTT DATA solution has seamlessly managed the ever-increasing volume of trips since beginning operations over a decade ago. To keep pace with growth and to provide PTV with the latest in innovation, NTT DATA continues to improve my by implementing technologies that will accommodate the system now and well into the future.

https://us.nttdata.com/en/industries/transportation

VIEW 2021/22 PROJECTS

  • Mobile Phone as a Public Transport Fare Payment Device (2021-22)
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Programmed

Programmed is a leading provider of operations and maintenance services across Australia and New Zealand. Our business model is built around our ability to recruit, deploy, manage and maintain a large, directly employed workforce of professional, skilled and semi-skilled staff with a wide range of capabilities. We are proud to efficiently serve more than 10,000 customers every day.

https://programmed.com.au/

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  • Herbicide products and control methods - conduct state-based field trial (2021-22)
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Saputo Dairy Australia

Saputo Dairy Australia is a division of Saputo Inc, one of the top ten dairy processors in the world. With operations across nine manufacturing facilities, SDA is the largest milk processor in Australia. Producing high quality dairy products for over 130 years, the Allansford site is also the oldest dairy processing site in Australia and one of the largest employers in south-west Victoria; employing over 800 people. The site produces a variety of cheeses, butter and butter blends, dairy powders, milk and cream for markets in Australia and internationally.

http://www.saputo.com/

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Transurban

Transurban is an Australian-owned company that builds and operate toll roads in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as in Greater Washington, United States and Montreal, Canada.

Transurban's roads are built for the long term, ensuring they’ll deliver real and lasting benefits to cities and their communities. While you’re thinking about getting home on time today, Transurban are thinking about how you’ll get home 10 or 20 years from now.

Transurban is also a technology company – researching and developing innovative tolling and transport technology that makes travel easier for everyone.

As an industry leader, high standards are set for our performance on social and environmental issues, and we invest in both to create social inclusion and manage our environmental impacts. We’re also a member of our local communities. We build parks and bike paths, create new community facilities, and plant trees for wildlife habitats – helping people connect with each other and their neighbourhoods.

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WEHI - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

WEHI is a leading independent medical research institute where the world’s brightest minds collaborate and innovate to make discoveries that will help us to live healthier for longer.
We bring together people with different skills and experience who are committed to long-term discovery. Our medical researchers have been serving the community for more than 100 years. We know that we can achieve better things bringing together diverse teams who work together for 10, 20 or even 50 years to tackle the big issues.
We are brighter because of our collaborations with hospitals, universities, research institutes and industry, and the support of our community, including philanthropists, donors and bequestors, alumni and consumers.
WEHI is a place where people are able to shine. People who are inquisitive, who are committed, who are passionate. People who want to make a difference. And we are committed to ensuring they have the tools to flourish, personally and professionally.

Our research

Our teams of researchers are committed to solving the most complex health problems, making transformative discoveries for cancer, infectious and immune diseases, developmental disorders and healthy ageing.
Cancer – understanding the basic processes that are disrupted to generate cancer cells, and how these can be targeted to treat disease
Immune health and infection – discovering how the body fights infection, and how errors in the immune system lead to disease
Development and healthy ageing – studying how the biological foundations laid down during gestation and childhood affect development, and how our longer life expectancy presents new challenges for our ageing population
New medicines and advanced technologies – a powerful hub for cutting-edge technologies underpinning biomedical discoveries and for the translation of these discoveries into new medicines and diagnostics.
Computational biology – developing and applying new tools to analyse the genomes of disease-causing parasites, as well as better understanding the immune system and genetic drivers of cancer.
Our students
WEHI offers postgraduate training as the Department of Medical Biology of The University of Melbourne, and is affiliated with the University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

www.wehi.edu.au

VIEW 2021/22 PROJECTS

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WEHI - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

WEHI is a leading independent medical research institute where the world’s brightest minds collaborate and innovate to make discoveries that will help us to live healthier for longer.
We bring together people with different skills and experience who are committed to long-term discovery. Our medical researchers have been serving the community for more than 100 years. We know that we can achieve better things bringing together diverse teams who work together for 10, 20 or even 50 years to tackle the big issues.
We are brighter because of our collaborations with hospitals, universities, research institutes and industry, and the support of our community, including philanthropists, donors and bequestors, alumni and consumers.
WEHI is a place where people are able to shine. People who are inquisitive, who are committed, who are passionate. People who want to make a difference. And we are committed to ensuring they have the tools to flourish, personally and professionally.

Our research

Our teams of researchers are committed to solving the most complex health problems, making transformative discoveries for cancer, infectious and immune diseases, developmental disorders and healthy ageing.
Cancer – understanding the basic processes that are disrupted to generate cancer cells, and how these can be targeted to treat disease
Immune health and infection – discovering how the body fights infection, and how errors in the immune system lead to disease
Development and healthy ageing – studying how the biological foundations laid down during gestation and childhood affect development, and how our longer life expectancy presents new challenges for our ageing population
New medicines and advanced technologies – a powerful hub for cutting-edge technologies underpinning biomedical discoveries and for the translation of these discoveries into new medicines and diagnostics.
Computational biology – developing and applying new tools to analyse the genomes of disease-causing parasites, as well as better understanding the immune system and genetic drivers of cancer.
Our students
WEHI offers postgraduate training as the Department of Medical Biology of The University of Melbourne, and is affiliated with the University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

www.wehi.edu.au

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Woodside Monash Energy Partnership

The Woodside Monash Energy Partnership is finding a sustainable path to a lower-carbon economy. By bringing together leading researchers and industry from across Monash, and beyond, into a collaboration with Woodside expertise, the Woodside Monash Energy Partnership fosters an innovative approach to collaborative problem solving that will accelerate the energy transition.
Spanning fundamental technical and non-technical research all the way through to pilot and demonstration projects, the partnerships aims to deliver solutions for a lower carbon ecosystem that is competitive with current markets, scalable for bulk energy transport, value-adding through the creation of carbon products, and able to integrate with energy policies to enable a successful transition.

VIEW 2021/22 PROJECTS

  • Large Scale Solar Project (2021-22)