Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Project type Community Engagement or Service, industry partnerships

Altered Tides

13 - Climate Action

ALTERED TIDES: CREATIVE COASTAL RECREATION IN A CLIMATE CHANGED FUTRE In partnership with SWELL Sculpture Festival and GECKO, Griffith University’s Climate Action Beacon is hosts the Altered Tides: Creative coastal recreation in a climate changed future event series. These events bring Indigenous knowledge, climate and coastal sciences, beach cultures and the arts… Read More

Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef Symposium

13 - Climate Action

In 2024, Griffith University hosted the 2024 Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef Symposium over three days 11-13th September. This symposium brought together a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. It highlighted diverse stories of the Reef and its peoples, unpicked moral dilemmas around decision-making in an uncertain… Read More

Conscious Adornment

4 - Quality Education

We organised an exhibition to draw attention to the SDGs. It concerns us that these are not as well known as they should be having encountered people who are unaware of them. We know jewellery plays a role in communicating values and can play a role in promoting and sharing… Read More

Australia Awards Short Course on Foreign Policy: Strategic Equilibrium in the Indo-Pacific

16 - Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

The geostrategic challenges facing Australia, Indonesia and our region today are sharper and more diverse than those faced before the COVID19 pandemic. Intensifying strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are significant challenges to international peace and security. Geostrategic competition also risks undermining the regional and global… Read More

Australia-Mekong Water Facility – Technical support to improve reservoir water quality management in Thailand

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

Thailand faces challenges with managing water quality in many of its reservoirs due to pressure from agricultural, domestic, and industrial pollution coupled with urbanization, increasing demand and climate change. The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) joined Australian experts to gain knowledge and strategies to monitor, prevent and decrease water quality impacts. Read More

Australia Awards Short Course Aus4ASEAN Green Skills in TVET

13 - Climate Action

The Australia Awards Short Course Aus4ASEAN Skills Forecasting for the Fourth Industrial Revolution was delivered under the Australian Governments Digital Transformation and Future Skills initiative, as part of a package aimed at supporting Australia’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the Association of South Asian Nations (ASEAN). The course was delivered to… Read More