Education Vision Project Fund

Members / Education Vision Project Fund

Applications for Education Vision Project Fund 2021/22 HAVE CLOSED.

Recipients of 2021/22 Funding

We are delighted to announce the recipients of funding for 2021/22.

Consortium Partners	Project
Education Queensland International (EQI) Griffith University	A Remarkable Gold Coast Journey Studying in the Gold Coast offers international students so much more than the chance to enhance their education. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be fully immersed in the enviable Gold Coast lifestyle, culture and experience. This project will produce video content which will not merely inform but engage, intrigue and entice international high school students and their families. These stories will be told through the eyes and voice of alumni sharing their journeys from high school and university to a great career outcome.
TAFE QLD SOBC Global (Blockchain Collective) Tyler International	Emerging Technology Literacy - Blockchain for future planning The design and delivery of a 15–25-minute digital experience (with prizes for students) that assesses the current understanding of emerging technology and the role it plays in the future. Aimed at Secondary High School students (locally, nationally and internationally), this project will attract and retain future student enrolments, whilst providing positive student experiences focused on employability in the tech space.
Capital College All Saints Anglican School Youth Music Venture	Golden Opportunity (GO Gold Coast) A stadium-class musical/choral event for students attending EQI Schools on the Gold Coast, performing with headline Australian recording artists who are immigrants themselves, using music and the spoken word to tell their hopes, dreams and stories of why studying on the Gold Coast is a Golden Opportunity for students past, present, and all those yet to come. Broadcast-quality promo videos, event live simulcast, and videos of student success stories will be produced for ongoing Gold Coast promotion.
Griffith University RDK Sports Playrpath Miami State High School Palm Beach Currumbin State High School Robina State High School	Elite Athlete Curriculum and Pathway Program Working with Gold Coast school-based sports excellence programs, the Elite Athlete Curriculum and Pathway Program is designed to better prepare student athletes for their transition into elite sporting programs and careers. By learning from elite athletes and elite sporting professionals, local students interested in careers in sport will learn the skills and strategies they will need to progress, excel and increase their employability.
Southport State High School Gold Coast Secondary Principals Alliance	Beyond the School Gates This project will allow all ATAR students access to high level academic tutoring, after school hours. Phase one of the initiative is to target three subject areas – Mathematical Methods, Physics and Chemistry. Expert teachers will be selected from across the schools. The project will culminate with consortium partner Griffith University through its outreach program Science on the Go providing expert masterclasses during the school holidays.
TAFE Queensland Gold Coast National Trust of Australia (Queensland) Limited t/as Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary	International Hospitality Apprenticeship Program The aim of this project is to promote the Gold Coast region to onshore international students as a desirable location to study a new and innovative model of delivery for hospitality based on the current apprenticeship model. A marketing campaign, including video and testimonials from the trial program, will be rolled out Australia wide.
All Saints Anglican School Saint Stephen's College	R U OK? - Mental Health Kit for International Students This project is designed to produce an international student-specific multi-language Mental Health kit containing resources to better help younger learners assimilate into their new life at the Gold Coast and monitor on-going mental health and well-being.
Griffith College Griffith University	Elevate International Student Immersion Pilot This project will elevate student attraction, support, and student experience for students who want to study on the Gold Coast but cannot, due to border closures. The project aims to pilot a free, 24/7 student support and counselling service.
Southern Cross University Publishers Internationale	Post-COVID Awareness in India This initiative partners with Publishers Internationale and combines a social media and digital campaign with strong editorial content, particularly emphasising the safety aspects of life and study on the Gold Coast. Testimonials will be used to convey the value of a Southern Cross University Gold Coast education, particularly targeting females. Connections with the Indian communities of the region will be included in a microsite so parents feel reassured that their student child will be safe. Additionally, a special “India edition” of the Southern Cross University study guide will be created for download.

Consortium Partners

Project

Education Queensland International (EQI)

Griffith University

A Remarkable Gold Coast Journey

Studying in the Gold Coast offers international students so much more than the chance to enhance their education. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be fully immersed in the enviable Gold Coast lifestyle, culture and experience. This project will produce video content which will not merely inform but engage, intrigue and entice international high school students and their families. These stories will be told through the eyes and voice of alumni sharing their journeys from high school and university to a great career outcome.

TAFE QLD

SOBC Global (Blockchain Collective)

Tyler International

Emerging Technology Literacy - Blockchain for future planning

The design and delivery of a 15–25-minute digital experience (with prizes for students) that assesses the current understanding of emerging technology and the role it plays in the future. Aimed at Secondary High School students (locally, nationally and internationally), this project will attract and retain future student enrolments, whilst providing positive student experiences focused on employability in the tech space.

Capital College

All Saints Anglican School

Youth Music Venture

Golden Opportunity (GO Gold Coast)

A stadium-class musical/choral event for students attending EQI Schools on the Gold Coast, performing with headline Australian recording artists who are immigrants themselves, using music and the spoken word to tell their hopes, dreams and stories of why studying on the Gold Coast is a Golden Opportunity for students past, present, and all those yet to come. Broadcast-quality promo videos, event live simulcast, and videos of student success stories will be produced for ongoing Gold Coast promotion.

Griffith University

RDK Sports

Playrpath

Miami State High School

Palm Beach Currumbin State High School

Robina State High School

Elite Athlete Curriculum and Pathway Program

Working with Gold Coast school-based sports excellence programs, the Elite Athlete Curriculum and Pathway Program is designed to better prepare student athletes for their transition into elite sporting programs and careers. By learning from elite athletes and elite sporting professionals, local students interested in careers in sport will learn the skills and strategies they will need to progress, excel and increase their employability.

Southport State High School

Gold Coast Secondary Principals Alliance

Beyond the School Gates

This project will allow all ATAR students access to high level academic tutoring, after school hours. Phase one of the initiative is to target three subject areas – Mathematical Methods, Physics and Chemistry. Expert teachers will be selected from across the schools. The project will culminate with consortium partner Griffith University through its outreach program Science on the Go providing expert masterclasses during the school holidays.

TAFE Queensland Gold Coast

National Trust of Australia (Queensland) Limited t/as Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

International Hospitality Apprenticeship Program

The aim of this project is to promote the Gold Coast region to onshore international students as a desirable location to study a new and innovative model of delivery for hospitality based on the current apprenticeship model. A marketing campaign, including video and testimonials from the trial program, will be rolled out Australia wide.

All Saints Anglican School

Saint Stephen's College

R U OK? - Mental Health Kit for International Students

This project is designed to produce an international student-specific multi-language Mental Health kit containing resources to better help younger learners assimilate into their new life at the Gold Coast and monitor on-going mental health and well-being.

Griffith College

Griffith University

Elevate International Student Immersion Pilot

This project will elevate student attraction, support, and student experience for students who want to study on the Gold Coast but cannot, due to border closures. The project aims to pilot a free, 24/7 student support and counselling service.

Southern Cross University

Publishers Internationale

Post-COVID Awareness in India

This initiative partners with Publishers Internationale and combines a social media and digital campaign with strong editorial content, particularly emphasising the safety aspects of life and study on the Gold Coast. Testimonials will be used to convey the value of a Southern Cross University Gold Coast education, particularly targeting females. Connections with the Indian communities of the region will be included in a microsite so parents feel reassured that their student child will be safe. Additionally, a special “India edition” of the Southern Cross University study guide will be created for download.

Education Vision Project Fund was established as a partnership program to support Study Gold Coast to achieve its vision. The program empowers Study Gold Coast education and training members to collaborate with industry stakeholders to run initiatives that support Study Gold Coast’s strategic pillars: Student Attraction, Student Retention, Student Employability and Student Experience. 

Eligible consortia may apply for between $5,000 and $50,000 matched funding. This means, a successful project costing $50,000 could receive $25,000 support. A maximum of 50% of total project costs will be awarded to successful projects.

Projects funded will:  

Be linked directly to Study Gold Coast’s strategic plan and the City of Gold Coast Funding Agreement’s goals and targets; 
Require collaborative activities and focus with at least two organisations, one being a Study Gold Coast Ordinary member; 
Be assessed by an independent panel and recommended to the Study Gold Coast Management Committee; 
Demonstrate value for money; 
Not be dependent on international travel;
Require matched financial contribution (either cash or in-kind) by the consortium; 
Be clear in the expected outcomes; and 
Require reporting to Study Gold Coast on project progress and achievement.

Previous RECIPIENTS OF 2020/21 FUNDING:

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of funding through the 2020 Education Vision Project Fund as follows:

Consortium Partners	Project
Helensvale State High School University of Queensland	Helensvale - The Next Generation Thinkers This project is a critical and creative thinking program for Year 8 students, focused on underpinning 21st century skills to build study capability, including reading, thinking and writing. Includes expert online communication with teacher collaboration and professional learning, along with expert lectures and a showcasing event online.
Emmanuel College Clicking Bricks Tyler International	Live Lego with Andrew & Damian (LEGO Masters) – “Connecting Bricks…… Connecting People” This project centres around the student construct of four LEGO builds in collaboration with partners of Study Gold Coast to promote Gold Coast as a study destination (face-to-face and online). Each build will depict an aspect of the Gold Coast’s beautiful landscape as well as our cultural diversity. Individually each will tell a story and together they will create a larger picture of the Gold Coast, a celebration of our diversity.
Imagine Education Ridgeway Group Entrepreneur Education	GC Paid Internship The GC Paid Internship takes the student experience to the next stage by giving 35 students the opportunity to gain on-the-job expertise when they join the team of a local business relating to their current field of study.
Merrimac State High School Browns English Language School Varsity College Southport State High School Benowa State High School Nerang State High School Robina State High School	Learning Without Borders During a time of limited international travel, the project aims to keep Gold Coast schools, their educational offerings, and post-school learning opportunities at the front of minds of prospective international students. The proposed program is based on schools' recent experiences of online teaching and learning evolved and refined during COVID related school closures. Initially offering a semester's study of the subject’s maths and physics, which require only basic English language skills, it is designed to engage and accredit its recipients, with a view to them continuing broader, longer term onsite studies once COVID induced border restrictions ease.
TAFE Queensland Gold Coast Manufacturing Ecosystem	Gold Coast School Manufacturing Hub Development of a Gold Coast School Manufacturing Hub as part of the current Gold Coast Manufacturing Ecosystem of 12 stakeholder groups. The Ecosystem's research work will identify a specific Gold Coast Manufacturing profile and identify strategies to address misconceptions about the industry.
TAFE Queensland Gold Coast Southern Cross University	Digital Technologies A 10 week series of events - showcases, seminars and workshops to promote digital technologies, culminating in a collaborative project hub where students would work with industry to develop a project (app, game, program etc), or solve an industry problem using digital technologies experienced during the events.
Barrington College Australia Southport State High School Aquinas College	Hospitality Skills Intensive Program Barrington College Australia will work with local secondary schools, education agents, English Language Schools and Study Gold Coast to offer an intensive hospitality skills training program for: 1) Year 13 domestic students whose final year of school studies and post-school plans were disrupted, and now require new skills for employment to facilitate ongoing employability, education and engagement; and 2) International students - relocating to the Gold Coast from other parts of Australia and/or requiring skills for employment particularly in the current economic climate and in the absence of government support.
Australian Pacific College English Unlimited Brisbane	Future Forward Fashion Design Creative Hub This project has four key components: the development and delivery of innovative design, fashion and merchandising industry focussed English courses; the offering of Nationally recognised fashion design and merchandising courses; the establishment of a creative fashion education and innovation hub to bring together the local fashion industry; and a work placement program that links fashion and merchandising education to business.
Browns English Language School Destination Gold Coast Gold Coast EQI schools Coomera Anglican College Emmanuel College Hillcrest Christian College Kings Christian College St Hilda’s College The Southport School (TSS) TAFE Queensland Griffith University Southern Cross University Bond University	On the GC TV / Station GC / Channel GC (TBC) Establishing an omni-media production/platform that is dedicated to showcasing the City of Gold Coast as Australia’s premier study destination for international students. Broadcasting will be via podcast/vodcast (live streamed and recorded), allowing Gold Coast education institutions to stream and record guest classes/lectures and events. Study Gold Coast members and local industries will be able to live stream or pre-record presentations, interviews, webinars, advertisements and other information pieces related to study, working, visiting or living on the GC.
Southern Cross University Young Change Agents	Gold Coast Changemaker Challenge The Gold Coast Changemaker Challenge is a collaboration between Southern Cross University, Young Change Agents and four Gold Coast high schools. Each high school will receive a Young Change Agents program in which students will work in teams to develop social enterprise solutions to problems they identify in their local area. The top two teams from each school will then progress to the pitch event at Southern Cross University where they will go head-to-head against other local teams to convince a panel of expert judges and audience that their idea will have the most beneficial impacts on the local community.
Bond University Urbis	Agent Bond - International Career Counsellor Advising Tool Earlier this year, Bond developed an onboarding tool for agents providing a unique and interactive way to learn more about Bond and the Gold Coast, with outstanding engagement and extremely positive feedback received. This project will deliver a similar experience for international high school career counsellors - critical influencers of prospective international undergraduate students.
Grayclay Liminal VR	Virtual Reality in Healthcare Pilot To create education skills programs using Virtual Reality to augment and gamify learning within education facilities, health industry and industry. The initial project, a pilot, will create a Virtual Reality augmented experience for educating students and employees in Infection Control 101 specifically the skill: surface cleaning (cleaning procedures and their specified times, routine surface cleaning).

Consortium Partners

Project

Helensvale State High School

University of Queensland

Helensvale - The Next Generation Thinkers

This project is a critical and creative thinking program for Year 8 students, focused on underpinning 21st century skills to build study capability, including reading, thinking and writing. Includes expert online communication with teacher collaboration and professional learning, along with expert lectures and a showcasing event online.

Emmanuel College

Clicking Bricks

Tyler International

Live Lego with Andrew & Damian (LEGO Masters) – “Connecting Bricks…… Connecting People”

This project centres around the student construct of four LEGO builds in collaboration with partners of Study Gold Coast to promote Gold Coast as a study destination (face-to-face and online). Each build will depict an aspect of the Gold Coast’s beautiful landscape as well as our cultural diversity. Individually each will tell a story and together they will create a larger picture of the Gold Coast, a celebration of our diversity.

Imagine Education

Ridgeway Group

Entrepreneur Education

GC Paid Internship

The GC Paid Internship takes the student experience to the next stage by giving 35 students the opportunity to gain on-the-job expertise when they join the team of a local business relating to their current field of study.

Merrimac State High School

Browns English Language School

Varsity College

Southport State High School

Benowa State High School

Nerang State High School

Robina State High School

Learning Without Borders

During a time of limited international travel, the project aims to keep Gold Coast schools, their educational offerings, and post-school learning opportunities at the front of minds of prospective international students. The proposed program is based on schools' recent experiences of online teaching and learning evolved and refined during COVID related school closures. Initially offering a semester's study of the subject’s maths and physics, which require only basic English language skills, it is designed to engage and accredit its recipients, with a view to them continuing broader, longer term onsite studies once COVID induced border restrictions ease.

TAFE Queensland

Gold Coast Manufacturing Ecosystem

Gold Coast School Manufacturing Hub

Development of a Gold Coast School Manufacturing Hub as part of the current Gold Coast Manufacturing Ecosystem of 12 stakeholder groups. The Ecosystem's research work will identify a specific Gold Coast Manufacturing profile and identify strategies to address misconceptions about the industry.

TAFE Queensland Gold Coast

Southern Cross University

Digital Technologies

A 10 week series of events - showcases, seminars and workshops to promote digital technologies, culminating in a collaborative project hub where students would work with industry to develop a project (app, game, program etc), or solve an industry problem using digital technologies experienced during the events.

Barrington College Australia

Southport State High School

Aquinas College

Hospitality Skills Intensive Program

Barrington College Australia will work with local secondary schools, education agents, English Language Schools and Study Gold Coast to offer an intensive hospitality skills training program for: 1) Year 13 domestic students whose final year of school studies and post-school plans were disrupted, and now require new skills for employment to facilitate ongoing employability, education and engagement; and 2) International students - relocating to the Gold Coast from other parts of Australia and/or requiring skills for employment particularly in the current economic climate and in the absence of government support.

Australian Pacific College

English Unlimited Brisbane

Future Forward Fashion Design Creative Hub

This project has four key components: the development and delivery of innovative design, fashion and merchandising industry focussed English courses; the offering of Nationally recognised fashion design and merchandising courses; the establishment of a creative fashion education and innovation hub to bring together the local fashion industry; and a work placement program that links fashion and merchandising education to business.

Browns English Language School

Destination Gold Coast

Gold Coast EQI schools

Coomera Anglican College

Emmanuel College

Hillcrest Christian College

Kings Christian College

St Hilda’s College

The Southport School (TSS)

TAFE Queensland

Griffith University

Southern Cross University

Bond University

On the GC TV / Station GC / Channel GC (TBC)

Establishing an omni-media production/platform that is dedicated to showcasing the City of Gold Coast as Australia’s premier study destination for international students. Broadcasting will be via podcast/vodcast (live streamed and recorded), allowing Gold Coast education institutions to stream and record guest classes/lectures and events. Study Gold Coast members and local industries will be able to live stream or pre-record presentations, interviews, webinars, advertisements and other information pieces related to study, working, visiting or living on the GC.

Southern Cross University

Young Change Agents

Gold Coast Changemaker Challenge

The Gold Coast Changemaker Challenge is a collaboration between Southern Cross University, Young Change Agents and four Gold Coast high schools. Each high school will receive a Young Change Agents program in which students will work in teams to develop social enterprise solutions to problems they identify in their local area. The top two teams from each school will then progress to the pitch event at Southern Cross University where they will go head-to-head against other local teams to convince a panel of expert judges and audience that their idea will have the most beneficial impacts on the local community.

Bond University

Urbis

Agent Bond - International Career Counsellor Advising Tool

Earlier this year, Bond developed an onboarding tool for agents providing a unique and interactive way to learn more about Bond and the Gold Coast, with outstanding engagement and extremely positive feedback received. This project will deliver a similar experience for international high school career counsellors - critical influencers of prospective international undergraduate students.

Grayclay

Liminal VR

Virtual Reality in Healthcare Pilot

To create education skills programs using Virtual Reality to augment and gamify learning within education facilities, health industry and industry. The initial project, a pilot, will create a Virtual Reality augmented experience for educating students and employees in Infection Control 101 specifically the skill: surface cleaning (cleaning procedures and their specified times, routine surface cleaning).

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Here’s a few highlights from previous projects:

Would You Like Some Upskilling With Your Coffee Sir?

Local students are setting out to provide delicious BBQ food and coffee to the community via a mobile food and beverage cart through a new incentive designed to take the training conversation to the people of the Gold Coast.

The Education Coffee and BBQ Cart will create a relaxed social environment allowing employers, current students, potential clients, prospective students and community members to connect over coffee and food while highlighting the advantages of upskilling to enhance employability and canvas work placement opportunities for TAFE students. At the same time hospitality and event students will gain workplace learning experience by developing technical and employer valued soft skills while preparing and serving food and coffee from the cart.

A Sports and Cultural Exchange

This week the Gold Coast is hosting 30 students from China as part of the Sister City Agreement signed by the City of Gold Coast and Chengdu earlier this year.

Boys and girls from three Chengdu based high schools, including the prestigious Chengdu No. 7 High School are enjoying a soccer and friendship exchange experience with Gold Coast based high schools including Trinity Lutheran College, Emmanuel College and Coomera Anglican College.

Insights Into A University Education

A group of international and local high school students had a taste of tertiary life this week at Bond University by engaging in a number of academic challenges. The High School to University Experience is a partnership between Bond University and local Education Queensland International schools, funded through Study Gold Coast’s Vision 2020 initiative. The experience is designed to give secondary students an idea of what studying at university on the Gold Coast is like.

Speed Dating Your Career

Health and community services is one of the biggest employers in Australia. Currently one in seven Queenslanders is employed in the sector and by 2050 the Gold Coast is projected to have the largest growth in this sector in the country, estimated to be worth $7 billion annually. In short, helping people, particularly the aged and disabled, is big business.