Partnerships and collaboration
Sponsors
The construction of the EcoCentre and its promotion of sustainable development through environmental education are only possible because of the generous support of our partners, sponsors and friends.
- The Queensland Government
- Brisbane City Council
- BHP Australia Coal
- AUSTA Energy
- CS Energy
- Visy Industries
- Stanwell Corporation
- QCT Resources
- Estate of Vivian Edgar Hancock
- Thiess Service
- Mitsubishi Australia
- Griffith Centre for Innovation and Research in Environmental Education
- Griffith University Office of Facilities Management
- Ontera Modular Capret
Partners
Some of the EcoCentre's sponsors demonstrated a long term commitment through the development of a formal partnership. These partners are:
Education Queensland
A partnership with Education Queensland means that a fully-fledged state school, the Toohey Forest Environmental Education Centre, operates from within the EcoCentre. Staffed by three teachers, the TFEEC coordinates the fieldwork of thousands of students each year. This form of partnership between school and university is a showcase of the creative educational synergies embodied in the EcoCentre.
Brisbane City Council
Between 2000- 2003 the Brisbane City Council sponsored the EcoCentre by funding the employment of the Manager position. In turn, the EcoCentre assists the Council in a number of ways in which environmental education is significant, eg through educating the Brisbane public about environmental issues, through membership of the Brisbane Information Network of environment centres, and through collaboration with Council's natural areas staff in Toohey Forest.
Collaboration
The EcoCentre has been developed as an environmental education hub through the collaboration of organisations who promote sustainable development and environmental education. Several of these organisations run their operations from directly within the EcoCentre:
- Education Queensland
- Earth Charter
- ACTS inc.
- Ecospecifier
- Friends of South-East Queensland
- Association for Tertiary Education Management
Friends of the Ecocentre
Friends of the EcoCentre, is an initiative of the EcoCentre in which we act as a networking facilitator for the university, community groups, industry, government organisations or any individuals who are working towards a just, sustainable and peaceful global society.