BAOSTEEL Australia

News & Events

  • EOI for R&D Funding 2023 closed. There are eleven (11) applications are invited for full proposal submission.  (Jul 2023)
  • Next BAJC Conference to be held in February 2024 at Hunter Valley, NSW  (Jul 2023)
  • Congratulations to nine projects selected to receive approved Baosteel Funding of $1.7m over three years, commencing in January 2024 ()
  • Annual Board meeting was held in Hangzhou, China on 2 September 2019 (Sep 2019)
  • Welcome Deakin University to join BAJC as one of the participant Australian Universities (Mar 2019)
  • BAJC 7th Annual Conference and Annual Project Review Meeting successfully held on 19-20 February 2019, at Cairns, QLD. (Feb 2019)
  • Congratulations to five projects on receiving 2018 BAJC Grants (commencing in January 2019) (Oct 2018)
  • BAJC 6th Annual Conference successfully held on 5 February 2018, at University of Wollongong.  (Mar 2018)
  • Mr Junsheng Zhu, Director of Baosteel and Deputy Secretary of CPC Committee Baosteel and Dr Jun Wu, President of Baosteel Central Research Institute (R&D Center) led a group of Baosteel delegations visited UQ on 25 October. (Oct 2017)
  • BAJC has welcomed new Board Co-Chair Prof Mohan Krisnamoorthy from UQ (Sep 2017)
  • BAJC has welcomed new Board member Dr Shiwei Xu from Baosteel (Mar 2017)
  • BAJC Annual Board and Project Review Meetings have been successfully held in conjunction with conference on Gold Coast, on 21 February 2017 (Mar 2017)
  • 5th Annual Conference successfully held at Gold Coast, QLD on 20 February 2017 (Mar 2017)
  • BAJC has finalized selection of BAJC Round 6 Projects. There are eight projects selected to receive approved Baosteel Funding of $1.6m over three years, commencing in January 2017.  (Dec 2016)
  • BAJC has completed the process of re-election of Board and Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) for the second phase of center management.  (Aug 2016)
  • Submission of Full Proposal of BAJC Round 6 Project closed. There were 10 full proposals received and submitted to Technical Advisory Panel for final assessment. (Aug 2016)
  • BAJC Round 2 Project Chief Investigators and associated researchers conducted Project Closure Workshop at Baosteel in June (Aug 2016)
  • Farewell to Centre Board Chair, Prof Max Lu, who has taken up the position of Vice-Chancellor of University of Surrey, UK. (Feb 2016)
  • Annual Board Meeting and TAC Meeting were held on 23 February 2016 (Feb 2016)
  • 4th Annual Conference successfully held in Hobart, Tasmania on 22 February 2016 (Feb 2016)
  • Congratulations to three BAJC projects on receiving 2015 round ARC-Linkage grants (Jul 2015)
  • Outcomes released for 2015 round BAJC R&D Fund (Jul 2015)
  • TAC and Board Meetings have been successfully held at UQ in July 2015 (Jul 2015)
  • BAJC EOI Assessment has been finalised and results have been distributed (May 2013)
  • The 2013 round of BAJC R&D Fund application - Call for EOIs announced (Mar 2013)
  • UQ VC Professor Peter Høj, DVC Prof Max Lu and EAIT Dean Professor Graham Schaffer met the Chairman Mr Lejiang Xu (Mar 2013)
  • Joint Board and TAC meeting held in UQ (Dec 2012)
  • 1st Annual Conference held in UQ on 13-14 December 2012 (Dec 2012)
  • Outcomes of the 2012 round BAJC R&D Fund released (Sep 2012)
  • Board meeting held in UQ (Jul 2012)
  • Dr. Shyi-Chin Wang, Vice President of Technology Division of the China Steel Corporation (CSC) Taiwan visits BAJC (Jan 2012)
  • BAJC new office opened (Feb 2012)
  • Outcomes of the 2011 round of BAJC R&D Fund released (Sep 2011)
  • Board meeting held in UQ (Sep 2011)
  • TAC and Board meetings held in UQ (Jun 2011)
  • The 2011 Round of Call-for-Proposal released (May 2011)
  • The 2011 round of BAJC R&D Fund announced (Mar 2011)
  • Opening Ceremony of the Centre (Apr 2011)
  • 1st Board meeting held in Customs House, Brisbane (Apr 2011)
  • Signing the Centre Agreement (Apr 2011)