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.
As the year nears its close, I’d like to take this opportunity to celebrate a big year at Engagement Australia (EA) and thank you for support and collaboration as I settled into the role of Chair.
Engagement Australia is delighted to announce that GivePulse will be sponsoring Transform: The Journal of Engaged Scholarship. GivePulse is the technology platform offering backbone support to the Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification. It enables the establishment, nourishing and evaluation of partnerships to improve outcomes of the community. GivePulse has supported institutions of higher education, nonprofits, cities, corporations, and more for over 12 years.
Engagement Australia is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards. Supported by our sponsors University of Melbourne and UNSW, Sydney, the Engagement Australia Excellence Awards focus on outstanding nation-building initiatives, demonstrating far-reaching impact and innovation, in all sectors and aspects of the Australian economy and community.
Some 35 of Australia and New Zealand’s most exceptional university community-building and economic-advancement initiatives have been shortlisted in the Engagement Australia 2024 Excellence Awards.
This new groundbreaking book on ACCESS brought to you by Engagement Australia pivots between this foundation period and urgent contemporary issues facing higher education in the 2020s and a connection is made through the idea of ‘threads through time’ between then and now and between Great Britain and Australia which had both similar and shared yet different concerns as democratic societies facing challenges.
The Centre For A Better Canberra (FAB CBR), based at the University of Canberra (UC), is a think tank and public engagement body with the objective of advocating for the interests of the Canberra community and bridging the gap between the University’s resources and the functional needs of Canberrans.
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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).
