2019-05-07 P&E Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Sustainability Institute - Concepts and Options Report

 Importance                  Issue                           Comments and Identified Institutes that use or highlight each issue
                             15 Transdisciplinary approach   The Institute promotes research that Transdisciplinary, transformative and co-creative
                                                             style of research with partners from diverse backgrounds (e.g., academia, political
                                                             institutions, administration, community members, industry) with a key aim of
                                                             understanding sustainability and generating potential solutions to issues of concern.
                                                             The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - http://www.teriin.org/
                                                             Institute for Sustainable         Solutions    -   https://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/institute-for-
                                                             sustainable-solutions
                                                             Sustainability Institute - http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.net/
                                                             Institute for Sustainable Society and Innovation - http://www.issnova.eu/

                             16 Broad funding base           The largest and evidently most successful Institutes have fund sourced from a variety
                                                             of sources. Funding should be sought from a broad variety of sources including Council,
                                                             State Government, Industry, government grants and other sources.
                                                             Institute for Sustainable Futures - https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-
                                                             research/institute-sustainable-futures
                                                             Institute for Sustainable Communities - http://www.iscvt.org/
                                                             The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) - http://www.teriin.org/

 Desirable                   17 Physical presence provides   The provision of services such as market gardens, café, school-based education
                                broad community services     facilities has been demonstrated to attract regular visitors to community-based institutes
                                                             Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies - https://ceres.org.au/
                                                             Sustainability Institute - http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.net/
                                                             Institute for Sustainable        Solutions     -   https://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/institute-for-
                                                             sustainable-solutions

                             18 Collaborative Research       CRAs reduce the amount of administration required for commencement and operation
                                Agreements                   of projects. CRAs cover common legal arrangements such as IP and partnership
                                                             arrangements. This provides a system where all individual projects from researchers
                                                             belonging to a research centre (e.g., University) are run under a CRA and therefore do
                                                             not have to be set up under a full research legal agreement each time they are
                                                             established as all the legal issues have been covered by the existing CRA. In addition,



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