Our Key Technology Partnerships enable collaborative research between UTS academics and their international counterparts. This global network reflects our research interests and desire to benefit society.

What is a Key Technology Partnership (KTP)?

  • A strategic international partnership with an overseas university in a country or region of interest for UTS, focused on teaching, research, and/or innovation and enterprise
  • Delivers strategic value and has strong potential to achieve significant collaborative outcomes
  • Features broad, multi-faculty engagement, extending beyond individuals
  • Involves mutual commitment, including an annual funding contribution from both institutions to support collaboration, generally through the UTS KTP Visiting Fellow Program and Seed Funding Schemes

Applications for the 2025 round are closed. Details for the 2026 KTP funding round will be announced in early 2026. 

Apply now to one of the KTP Funding Programs

UTS Key Technology Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme
Supports collaborative projects between UTS staff and their counterparts from Key Technology Partner institutions, in categories other than travel. 

UTS Key Technology Partnerships Visiting Fellow Program (inbound travel to UTS)
Supports UTS staff to invite their counterparts from Key Technology Partner institutions to travel to Sydney and collaborate on projects of mutual interest. 

UTS launched the Key Technology Partnerships (KTP) strategy in 2010. Our aim was to build enduring research collaboration with a select number of partner institutions internationally.

Throughout the program, UTS and our strategic partners work to:

  • complement each other's expertise
  • expand our international networks
  • produce joint academic papers
  • recruit high-quality collaborative PhD students
  • gain access to international research funding and industry projects in other countries
  • gain cross-cultural understanding and inter-disciplinary experience
  • contribute to research excellence and impact — with worldwide social benefit.

Key Technology Partners

UTS currently has five Key Technology Partner universities.

KTP activity at a glance:

  • 3,413 co-authored publications
  • 168 visiting fellows inbound to UTS (since 2011)
  • 69 UTS academics outbound to Key Technology Partners (since 2012)
  • 101 collaborative PhD students
  • $6,080,608 in external funding granted.