2025 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards Winners Announced
Engagement Australia is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards.
Community engagement allows universities the opportunity to play an important role of social responsibility in the local and broader vicinity they operate within.
Our main objective is to lead and facilitate the development of best practice university-community engagement in Australia. This is done through creating inclusive forums for discussion and development of engagement, promoting practice, fostering awareness, building capacity and developing resources. Through the work of our Board, committees and working groups, EA provides an array of professional development activities as well as networking opportunities to develop engagement knowledge, skills and capacity and build interactive networks, partnerships and other relationships within and between universities, business, industry, government and community-based organisations.
Championing unique role universities have in society addressing contemporary challenges through teaching, research and partnerships.
Engagement Australia is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards.
Some 35 of Australia and New Zealand’s most exceptional university community-building and economic-advancement initiatives have been shortlisted in the Engagement Australia 2025 Excellence Awards.
Engagement Australia is pleased to share this exciting professional development opportunity from our associate members at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)—a global leader in service-learning innovation.
The 2025 Engagement Australia Conference united over 200 leaders to explore how universities can build transformational partnerships and reassert their civic purpose. With public trust in institutions under pressure, the event championed engagement, social licence, and democratic responsibility as core to higher education’s future.
Privilege to introduce the inaugural Special Issue of Transform, spotlighting the IARSLCE Asia Pacific x International Conference on Service-Learning (ICSL) held in Hong Kong, 2024.
Our Autumn Newsletter is out now! We look forward to engaging with you further in the suite of activities listed below, and also within the Engagement Australia Carnegie Community Engagement Network that continues to draw strong engagement from the sector as we move toward the next round of Carnegie classification launched at the EA conference.
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“The hallmark of engagement is the development of partnerships that ensure a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge between the University and the community.” Holland and Ramalay (2008:33).