2025 Grantees
Telematics Trust supported the following list of organisations in the 2025 grant round.
Swinburne University | $49,991
Tailored Training to Empower Mental Health Clinicians Working in Aged Care
This project delivers an innovative, AI-powered training portal to equip mental health clinicians with tailored education in psychological care for older adults in residential aged care. By customising training to each learner’s discipline, client group, and knowledge gaps, the program addresses a critical skills shortage in a sector where over 70% of residents experience significant depression or anxiety.
Cool Australia | $50,000
Upstanders in Action: Year 8 Digital Learning Series
Young Australians are growing up amid increasing social division. To combat racism and antisemitism, Cool.org and Courage to Care will expand their successful Upstander Education series into Year 8, with 6 new curriculum-aligned digital lessons. Using Cool.org’s Hope and Act Framework, this project will empower students to recognise prejudice, understand their agency, and take inclusive action.
Digital Defence | $50,000
Click Check Schools Program: A Digital Toolkit for Critical Online Decision-Making
With misinformation and harmful content increasingly influencing public discourse and behaviour, Click Check is a curriculum-aligned, classroom-ready program that empowers Victorian students to pause, question, and evaluate online information before acting or sharing. Click Check helps students understand the impact of their digital choices, build resilience against online threats, and foster a culture of accountability and inclusion.
Chemistry Education Association Inc. | $49,100
Ensuring Great Science Teaching for All
Access to quality chemistry education in Victoria is uneven with around 2,000 science teachers lacking formal chemistry training, particularly in rural, remote, and disadvantaged schools. Out-of-field (OOF) teaching negatively affects student learning, engagement, and progression into VCE and tertiary pathways in critical sectors like health, mining, and manufacturing. This initiative aims to upskill these teachers using accessible, tailored, tech-enabled resources to help address national teacher shortages and the associated rise in OOF teaching.
Cyberstronomy Pty Ltd | $50,000
NeuroJustice: Teaching Neurodiverse Victorians How to Safely and Confidently Interact with Law Enforcement Using Digital Education Tools
Neurodiverse Victorians can be vulnerable in law enforcement interactions when communication and sensory differences are misinterpreted as defiance, non-compliance or aggression. NeuroJustice is an AI-powered, digital education platform co-designed with neurodiverse Victorians to directly address this gap. Adaptive AI personalises learning experiences and interactive, scenario-based modules simulate realistic police encounters, integrating adaptive pacing, simplified language, and clear visual and auditory cues to support understanding and de-escalation.
SharingStories Foundation | $48,000
Koorie Digital Maps: Connecting Country, Sharing Culture
The Koorie Discovery Map is a ground-breaking interactive map that allows users to explore stories from Victorian First Nations communities through film, animation, audio, and photography, alongside rich curriculum-aligned educational resources. As Elders pass away, cultural knowledge is at risk of being lost for younger generations. In an evolving digital age, the Koorie Discovery Map offers young people an engaging and meaningful way to connect with culture, language, and technology.
La Trobe University | $50,000
On-Country, Online: A Digital Pathway to YORTA YORTA Cultural Custodianship
This project will establish a secure, culturally governed digital archive on Yorta Yorta Country using the Mukurtu platform. Co-designed with Elders and community members, this scalable model for Indigenous digital preservation will protect a nationally significant Indigenous collection while addressing urgent challenges faced by First Nations communities, including aging materials, limited digitisation access, and climate threats.
Swinburne University | $40,000
CommUnity AI: AI-Powered Multilingual Document Support for Community Empowerment
CommUnity AI is an innovative, AI-powered multilingual assistant co-designed with migrant communities to help individuals understand formal documents such as housing, health, and legal correspondence. Developed in partnership with Africause, the chatbot addresses critical barriers to equity and inclusion faced by Victorian migrant and refugee communities who struggle with literacy challenges. By allowing users to upload official documents for instant interpretation, plain English summarisation, translation, and actionable guidance, CommUnity AI empowers individuals to navigate complex systems with confidence.
The Julia Argyrou Endometriosis Centre at Epworth | $50,000
KnowEndo: Endometriosis Education for All
Endometriosis affects 1 in 7 women and people assigned female at birth, with low awareness contributing to a diagnostic delay of 6–8 years. Individuals with low literacy, from CALD backgrounds, and neurodivergent communities often face significant barriers to accessing health education. To improve access to education and care, JAECE will test and evaluate an AI-driven framework to produce podcasts and translate a pelvic pain education video into the top nine languages spoken by Victorians with low English proficiency.
Smiling Mind | $50,000
Voices for Every Mind: Scaling Multilingual Mental Fitness Tools Through AI
This project pilots the use of generative AI tools to create culturally adaptive, multilingual meditation and wellbeing videos for children and families. Currently, most wellbeing content is only available in English, limiting accessibility and emotional resonance for CALD communities. This project explores the potential of AI technologies such as voice cloning, avatars, and translation to deliver high-quality, relatable content at scale.
Australian Catholic University | $49,962
VR Simulation for Psychologist Training (VR-SimPT)
In response to Victoria’s mental health crisis and the urgent need to expand the psychology workforce, this project introduces VR-SimPT – an immersive virtual reality simulation tool designed to accelerate and enhance psychology training. Traditional simulation-based learning methods, such as peer roleplay and actor-based scenarios, are costly, limited in realism, and difficult to scale. VR-SimPT offers a high-fidelity, interactive alternative that allows trainees to ‘step into’ a virtual therapy room and practice core assessment and treatment skills in a safe, accessible, and cost-effective environment.
Orygen | $50,000
Bringing Psychosis Out of the Shadows: Using Social Media to Break Through Stigma and Promote Help-Seeking
This campaign addresses the urgent need for early intervention in psychosis by delivering a targeted anti-stigma and education campaign to young people aged 16–25 and their parents/carers. Led by lived experience and supported by research and marketing experts, content will be shared on Instagram and Facebook and trialled in Greater Geelong using geotargeted ads. This campaign builds on the success of Psychosis Understood – Australia’s only lived experience-led psychosis education account.