Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

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Climate Change and Water Short Course

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The primary objective of the activity is the design and delivery of two virtual Australian Awards Short Courses for participants from South Asian countries. The short courses will cover climate change mitigation and adaptation, with a specific focus on best practices in water resources management (WRM) and water, sanitation and…

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Water Leadership Program

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

“The Water Leadership Program (WLP) is an award-winning program that helps emerging leaders to develop the ability to exert influence, drive change and advance challenging integrated water management projects – abilities associated with the most effective integrated water management leaders. The WLP is a feedback-intensive, 10-month professional development program,…

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Saving Nemo: Reducing animal use in toxicity assessments of wastewater

14 - Life Below Water

Human activities release large quantities of wastewater to rivers and oceans. This wastewater often contains toxic chemicals, which can adversely affect living organisms. Our current methods to assess the toxicity of wastewater effluent are relatively insensitive and expensive, which means that monitoring is only infrequently conducted and is not protective…

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 Open access to Griffith University research

10 - Reduced Inequalities

Griffith Research Online (GRO) is a digital repository of openly accessible research and scholarship from Griffith University. GRO increases the impact and influence of Griffith research and scholarship by ensuring it is visible, discoverable and accessible; the research is indexed by Google Scholar and harvested by Unpaywall, NLA Trove and…

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Free library membership for all community borrowers

4 - Quality Education

Previously, members of the public were charged a $55 membership fee to join the library. While the initial idea was to waive the fee under certain circumstances, such as for people experiencing hardship, after discussion with Library Management and the Library Campus Services Coordinators, a decision was made to remove…

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Family businesses and SDG#4 – Quality Education

4 - Quality Education

The book ‘Family businesses on a mission: Attaining the Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education’ focuses on how family businesses on an international basis can align themselves to SDG#4. It features case studies of family businesses from Australia, Algeria, USA and Austria.

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National Digital Innovation Launchpad

1 - No Poverty

Griffith University has collaborated with ReGov Technologies in Malaysia to connect vulnerable economies in the Pacific Islands to global markets through the National Digital Innovation Launchpad (NDIL). Starting in Tonga, the NDIL is designed to accelerate the use of technology and build local capacity to implement digital projects and solutions…