Griffith University supports the Sustainable Development Goals

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The Pathway Program

6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The purpose of the three-level Pathway Program is to provide an easily accessible, foundational leadership development program for water professionals and practitioners to strengthen their ability to exert influence and drive positive change in their projects and workplaces, and to address our most significant water-related challenges. The Pathway Program… Read More

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, underpinned… Read More

Read and Publish Agreements

4 - Quality Education

Read and Publish agreements are ‘transformative’ agreements combining the cost of reading (access via subscriptions paid by a library) and publishing (Article Processing Charges (APCs)). Australian academic libraries have adopted these agreements with many publishers. For example in 2022–2023, 20,570 articles were made openly accessible without payment of APCs (Missingham,… Read More

Peak Plastique

13 - Climate Action

Ordinary plastic objects transformed into extraordinary soundscapes. A sonic journey into the world of plastic, featuring 11 exquisite musical compositions accompanied by evocative animations, that explore our complex relationship with plastics. Drawing on decades of sonic curiosity across the fields of classical, jazz and experimental music traditions, pianist Erik Griswold,… Read More

The Worker Learner Podcast

8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

The Worker Learner Podcast is an initiative of the Griffith University Professional Learning Hub. The content includes stories and insights about working life, hosted by Griffith University academics. It features remarkable guests who are making a significant impact in their fields. The conversations not only discuss the skills needed for… Read More

CORE-STEP: Advancing Innovative Knowledge-Based Solutions for Inclusive and Climate Ready Primary Healthcare Systems

17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Primary healthcare centres, known as PUSKESMAS, in Indonesia, are at the forefront of the current climate crisis. CORE-STEP is a collaborative project between Griffith University and Universitas Syiah Kuala in Banda Aceh, Indonesia that aims to strengthen the resilience of PUSKESMAS in response to impacts of climate change. CORE-STEP has… Read More

Blue Carbon Mangrove Conservation Project

14 - Life Below Water

The Infinity Blue, consisting of The New Ireland Mangrove and Seagrass Biodiversity Conservation; and Livelihoods and Blue Carbon Project, aims to create a proposal that is ready for investment in blue carbon offsets for the international market. The project is funded by the Australian Government in partnership with the International… Read More