Press Releases

Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN) and Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), effective from November 2021.

Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN) and the Queensland Government Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport (DTIS) haveannounced anewpartnership to accelerate Queensland’s sports innovation economy, as part of the Department’s commitment to innovation under the ActiveKIT program.

The University of Bayreuth Melbourne Gateway Office and the Australian Sports Technologies Network (ASTN) have confirmed a collaboration as part of the ASTN-GSIC Pre-Accelerator program. The entrepreneurial education program will see a group of students from the University of Bayreuth, who are part of the Master’s Programme in Sports Technology at the University in Germany, take part in the live-online cohort between September and December 2021. The Bayreuth-based student group, who have developed a 3D-printed foot prothesis for children and made it to the finals of the German 3D-Printing Challenge, will take part in the program alongside other Victorian- and Australianbased sportstech founders, athletes, researchers and practitioners to expand their knowledge on innovation commercialization.

The Australian Sports Technologies Network has great pleasure in announcing the establishment of the Australian Sports Innovation Centre of Excellence (ASICE) Advisory Council.

The Victorian Government Minister for Innovation, Medical Research, and the Digital Economy, Jaala Pulford yesterday announced support for Victoria’s growing sports technology sector with a $4 million investment to establish the Australian Sports Innovation Centre for Excellence (ASICE) in Cremorne, Melbourne’s global innovation and technology precinct.