Dear Colleagues,

Enactus Australia was excited to to get back to holding our National Competition in-person event on the 6&7th of July hosted by Sydney University.

It was an exciting 2 days of connecting and sharing impact. Congratulations to all our competing universities for another inspiring event.  Our teams continue to develop and implement projects addressing key issues facing our country as well as current issues in the world.  Some of these projects include working towards contributing to sustainable solutions in areas such as Disadvantaged Youth/Communities, Social Enterprise Development, Indigenous Development, Ageing Population, Disability, Health & Well-Being, Homelessness, Pollution, Recycling and Re-Use, Sustainability, Education, Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Food Security. Monash University won this year’s competition with their project Cyrcle which has a focus on recycling textile waste.                                         

Over 250 people attended our event, including more than 150 students,10 faculty members, over 11 Observers and 81 judges from several companies, including partners, alumni and academic leaders.

Our social media reached over 15000 impressions.

This year we held ceremonies and ran workshops throughout our event including a CSIRO workshop on reducing plastic waste.  A big thank you to Andrea Sosa Pintos from CSIRO who facilitated the session. It was followed by a call to action by Anna Dear from Coca Cola Australia for teams to develop approaches to behaviour change around disposal of plastic waste.

Our Faculty Advisor research session, facilitated by Donella Caspersz, followed by a strategy meeting facilitated by our CEO, Selena helped us set a path forward to communicate our impact around ESG and SDGs grow and create more value for our students and partners

You will find more information about our many activities, including our workshops later in this Newsletter.

The World Cup will be held in person this year on the 30th of October - 2nd November in Puerto Rico.  

Visit https://enactus.org/worldcup  to learn more about the event and register to attend. You may register as an Opening and/or Semi Final Round judge or as an observer and cheer on our National Champion Monash University.  I hope you will join us for this unique experience.

Thanks again to all of our stakeholders for your on-going support of the program here in Australia.

Events and Happenings

Our July Newsletter always concentrates on the activities and excitement of the National Competition.

National Competition  6&7th July 2022

This year we had a fabulous time back in face to face mode and hosted at USYD Abercrombie Business School. CSIRO ran an excellent workshop on Plastics followed by a challenge set by Coca Cola for teams to take on. We had a strategy session with FA’s to look at ways to grow teams and their projects. Students enjoyed a careers expo with some of our partners, sharing all their projects via our project poster exhibition, hearing from a panel of Alumni hosted by Anthony Takyi from CAANZ, and we all enjoyed reconnecting, making new friends, and sharing our impact.

A huge congratulations to the team from Monash University, our National Champions for 2022. The team is now preparing to represent Australia at the World Cup in October. This is a fantastic outcome as Monash were in our New Teams program last year!

Every team brought viable, impactful, and innovative projects to present and should feel pride in their efforts. A full list of winners and awards follows below. #weallwin.

National Competition  - Award Winners 

• National Champion and Winner of the Mark Smith Award - Monash University
• National Champion Runner up - UNSW
• Finalists - Monash University, UNSW, The University of Melbourne, Macquarie University
• Semi Finalists - Monash University, UNSW, The University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, Curtin University, The University of Western Australia, Griffith University, QUT
• Spirit of Enactus  -QUT
• New Teams Winner - University of Wollongong
• New Teams Runner Up -University of Newcastle
• CSIRO Spirit of Enactus New Teams - University of Sunshine Coast
• Judy Howard Most Outstanding Student Award -Melina Skidmore, QUT
• Most Outstanding Faculty Advisor -Mary-Anne Williams, UNSW
• Best Practice Business Advisory Board -UNSW
• Alumni Achievement Award -Shirley Lee, MQU

Races Worth Running - Award Winners

• Race for Climate - Edith Cowan University
• 1 Race 4 Oceans - Macquarie University 
• Race to feed the Planet -University of Newcastle
• Race to Rethink Plastic - The University of Western Australia
• Race to Empower and Include - University of Technology Sydney 
• Race to be Respectful Allies for First Nations Voice - University of Sunshine Coast

You can view the final four presentations from the finalist universities on our website www.enactusaustralia.org.au under events/National Competition.

There is also a link to our Alumni Panel Discussion and our Final Awards Ceremony.

We have an image gallery of photos from the two days you can access these by clicking on the link below.   https://photos.app.goo.gl/eT5ZCjxAQshTpj3X6

Any enquiries regarding the 2022 National Competition  or information on the World Cup please email Kylie Smith at - ksmith@enactus.org 

National Champion Team Audit 

We are very pleased to announce that Monash University are starting to get ready for their Audit process and we will be working closely with them in their preparation to attend the World Cup.

Alumni 

For all those students who are graduating or moving on don't forget to keep in touch by joining the Enactus Australia Alumni Association.

To become involved please visit  https://www.enactusaustralia.org.au/alumni 

Enactus International 

World Cup 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2022

The main news from International is of course the lead up to the World Cup in October with this year's World Cup also being held in person in Puerto Rico. 

We would love to have as many students and Judges attend from Australia to support our winning team Monash University.  If you would like to attend the world cup please contact Kylie Smith - ksmith@enactus.org and kylie will forward the registration details.

This promises to be an exciting event you don't want to miss. #PassionOnPurpose 

You can also view details of the event on the International webpage https://enactus.org/worldcup