Education Vision Project Fund
Applications for Education Vision Project Fund 2021/22 are now open
Applications close 5pm, Friday 21 May 2021
Attend the information webinar on Thursday 22 April at 12 noon – register here.
Helpful documents include:
- Application Guidelines
- Collaboration Draft Application template
- Consortium Member Commitment letter template
- Study Gold Coast Strategic Plan
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.
The application process is online. Please read the Application Guidelines carefully before applying.
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). |
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