Announcing PEATLI 2023!

Announcing PEATLI 2023!

Interested in going to Indonesia to learn about and work on initiatives that address the Sustainable Development Goals??

The UQ Centre for Communication and Social Change (CfCSC) is collaborating with the Indonesian Peatland and Mangrove Restoration Agency (BRGM), the Indonesian National Research Agency (BRIN), Universitas Indonesia (UI) and Universitas Brawijaya (UB) to offer UQ students from a wide range of disciplines the opportunity to work on a real-life complex problem in Indonesia.

After successful engagement of two cohorts of students in 2019 and one in 2022, the PEATLI project will involve two more cohorts in 2023:

  • PEATLI-4 with PEATLI standing for ‘Peatland community Engagement And Transdisciplinary Learning – Indonesia’, hosted by BRGM and UI. Workshops take place in Semester 1 and travel to Indonesia (Jakarta and Jambi province, Sumatra) is from 17 June to 4 July 2023.
  • PEATLI-5 with PEATLI standing for ‘Poverty, community Engagement And Transdisciplinary Learning – Indonesia’, hosted by BRIN and UB. Workshops take place in Semester 2 and travel to Indonesia (Lombok in NTB province and Malang in East Java province) is from 18 November to 5 December 2023.

Information sessions:

PEATLI-4:

  • Tuesday, 21 February 2023, 16:00-17:00 in Room 208, Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).
  • Thursday, 23 February 2023, 16:00-17:00 in Room 208, Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).

PEATLI-5:

  • Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 16:00-17:00 in Room 208, Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).
  • Thursday, 27 July 2023, 16:00-17:00 in Room 208, Joyce Ackroyd Building (#37).

More information can be found HERE.