Enhancing research partnerships
The Science and Innovation Program is committed to enhancing research partnerships and collaboration with stakeholders, various research and academic institutions and research consortia (e.g. eWater CRC, SEQ Urban Water Security Research Alliance) in the delivery of relevant scientific information and tools to our stakeholders.
Successful research partnerships include:
health-e-waterways
health-e-waterways, a collaborative project between SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership, University of Queensland and Microsoft Research, has been successful in obtaining additional funding support ($720,000) from the Queensland Government’s National and International Research Alliance Program. This project is a model of the Partnership’s successful leveraging of resources with Federal and State Government and research institutions.
The Partnership’s funding contribution of $90,000 is matched with up to $1.8 million from the Queensland Government, the Australian Research Council, Microsoft Research and The University of Queensland; an impressive funding leverage ratio of 1:20. The development of health-e-waterways will enable waterways stakeholders to work together more effectively and will foster integrated management of the whole-of-water cycle. The initiative draws on the collaborative programs already underway in South East Queensland.
health-e-waterways will be a significant advance on current information systems as it will be designed so that good information is available more readily to underpin the management investments by Healthy Waterways Partners.
Understanding Resilience of Moreton Bay to Climate Change
This project aims to assess the resilience of Moreton Bay to nutrient and sediment loads now and in the future in light of climate change. It is a three year collaboration between the Partnership, University of Queensland, Griffith University and Queensland Environment Protection Agency, and has successfully leveraged partner dollars with the Australian Research Council at a leverage factor of 1:3.
Developing Integrated Water Cycle Management Conceptual Diagrams
Aimed at fostering discussions towards an integrated approach to research round the whole-of-water cycle in SEQ, the Partnership in affiliation with the International Water Centre and SEQ Urban Water Research Alliance as developed conceptual diagrams depicting the current state of research and highlighting future gaps to address management needs.