Making impactful change through partnership
We can all benefit from the impact of collaboration. This is why we strive to make industry engagement everybody’s business at UniSC.
Together we can broaden industry experience opportunities, enhance graduate employment outcomes, and leverage business and industry development opportunities that contribute to a better tomorrow.
Why partner with us?
In less than three decades, UniSC has grown from a single greenfield campus to a multi-campus university with over 18,000 students. As we continue to grow, our mission to enrich our regions, connect with our communities, and create opportunities for all, will be strengthened through increased engagement with industry and community.
Founded with a close alignment of values and expertise, a strategic partnership with UniSC can provide new opportunities and improved student success, growth in research activity and impact, and contribute to industry growth and prosperity locally and globally.
Opportunities
Student scholarships
Support students to reach their full potential through providing a scholarship or bursary. Your support can make impactful change to people and society.
Events and initiatives
Connect with our students and give back to the next generation by sharing the knowledge and skills that contributed to your organisation's success.
Research partnerships
Collaborate with our researchers to create impact, drive growth, and access new knowledge and funding opportunities.
Innovation and commercialisation
Brainstorm commercial ideas, accelerate your existing business, or take your vision all the way to the investors with UniSC Innovation.
Professional learning
Keep pace with the fast-changing business environment with short courses and training delivered by UniSC's industry experts.
Venue hire and co-location
Access UniSC's modern and flexible spaces for events or co-location opportunities for business of any size.
Opportunities to give back
A gift today can truly change the future. Make a difference in partnership with UniSC.
Our industry partners
Building strong and long-term relationships with industry and community opens new possibilities. Explore some of our partnership success stories and how they are making impactful change.
Cleaner energy - Veolia
With a relationship stemming back to the early 2000s, UniSC and Veolia's shared vision of innovation and sustainability led to the development of a project aimed at reducing the University's energy use by up to 40 percent. The water battery constructed on the UniSC Sunshine Coast campus features more than 6,000 solar panels and a 4.5 ML thermal energy storage tank.
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Saving our Koalas - Sunshine Coast Council
Further leveraging UniSC’s research expertise, the UniSC Detection Dogs for Conservation research group is collaborating with Council and the community to protect the Sunshine Coast’s koala population through an Australian Government grant funded project Saving Sunshine Coast Koalas.
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Expanding our engineering workforce - Veolia
Veolia ANZ announces $40,000 for new scholarships to support female students starting an undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) (Honours) program at UniSC.
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Sustainable urban design - Sunshine Coast Council
In collaboration with Sunshine Coast Council, UniSC researchers are investigating how urban forests can minimise heat risks as part of the Cool Urban Forests project, to provide insights to Council that may assist in the development of urban design policy and planning in the region.
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Living seawall - Sunshine Coast Council
UniSC and Sunshine Coast Council are working together to advance the region’s natural environment with a research project to investigate whether the installation of a living seawall in a constructed man-made lake, such as Brightwater Lake, will improve the variety and abundance of marine species.
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biospHEROES - Sunshine Coast Council
The University is proud to host community events on campus in partnership with Sunshine Coast Council, including biospHEROES. Connecting school students in the region with ideas to protect the environment.
HavenXR on-campus studio
HavenXR relocated from Hollywood to Australia in 2022, quickly forming a partnership with UniSC to position the Sunshine Coast as a hub for research and development in the industry. Through this collaboration, UniSC design students are being fast-tracked into the $80 billion industry via an on-campus studio, reshaping the way research and industry collaborate.
In our regions
UniSC is proud to contribute to the economic growth and prosperity of all our regions. Key industries driving growth include health, advanced manufacturing, food & agribusiness, ICT, tourism, sport, and major events.
With five campuses in South East Queensland, our newest campus, UniSC Moreton Bay at Petrie, is situated in the third largest local government area in Australia by population, and one of the fastest growing. To the north, our Fraser Coast campus sits in the rapidly expanding city of Hervey Bay, known for its beautiful landscapes, pristine beaches, and historic towns.
Strong and enduring partnerships
Through strong and enduring partnerships with local councils, from Moreton Bay to the Fraser Coast, UniSC is committed to advancing the communities we serve and regions we operate in. We play a key role in Sunshine Coast Council’s Regional Economic Development Strategy (REDS), and the City Economic Strategy for City of Moreton Bay, collaborating with all levels of government, local businesses, and industry partners to enhance workforce development and foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
News
Growth, global partnerships and flexible learning options: UniSC unveils future plans
UniSC has unveiled an ambitious future, focusing on a transformative student experience and enrolment growth.
‘Huge regional opportunities’: UniSC partners with Comlink Australia on future of aged care
A new partnership between community care provider Comlink Australia and UniSC allows more university students to stay in their home regions and earn while they learn, and will also help tackle critical workforce shortages in aged care.
On the fast track from UniSC to KPMG
After thinking he may not make it through his first semester, Nick is ticking off a list of successes including completing an internship and securing a job with KPMG.
Saving our ‘milbi’: Work begins on new sea turtle research and recovery centre
With funding support from all levels of government, UniSC and its partners – Turtles in Trouble Rescue and the Butchulla Native Title Aboriginal Corporation – are transforming a disused scout hall into a dedicated rehabilitation and research centre in Hervey Bay.
Key contacts
General enquiries: Email: industry@usc.edu.au
Taksil Dias
General Manager | Industry Engagement
Belinda Hopgood
Manager | Industry Engagement