Sustainable Development Goals

Leading Hunter Region transport operator Port Stephens Coaches is coming together with Zero Emissions transport supplier Foton Mobility Distribution (FMD) and University of Newcastle, to run a short trial of a Battery Electric City Bus (BEV).

The winners of the 2023 Reconciliation awards have been announced. The awards were created to recognise efforts in reconciliation and to create cultural safety for staff and students.

This year, on International Women’s Day, we are celebrating 11 female staff, students, and alumni who are ‘Cracking the Code’ and paving a way towards gender equality.

The most extensive global survey of Catholic women ever undertaken, detailing experiences of women in the church, will be presented by Australian researchers in-person at the Vatican this International Women’s Day.

On November 29, 2022, the School of Architecture and Built Environment's (SABE) Construction Management team organized a one-day High-Level Stakeholders Engagement Workshop with the goal of fostering a cooperative agenda to address the severe construction workforce shortages affecting Regional NSW.

By speaking at the Fishers for Fish Habitat Forum on November 25, 2022, Troy Gaston, an assistant professor at the University of Newcastle, made a significant contribution to the development of sustainable fisheries and community engagement.

A recent significant progress occurred in Moana’s Living Lab initiative where the University of Newcastle and the village entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in November 2022. This partnership aims to facilitate research and tourism centered around the Samoan Mangrove Ecosystem.

The University of Newcastle has demonstrated its strong commitment to sustainability and ensuring sustainable land use by helping to fund the Delprat Garden and support them in holding the two open days held in February and November 2022.

In close collaboration with Upper Hunter Insights and to mark this crucial time, the University of Newcastle recently held "Upper Hunter Insights: Exploring Current and Future Innovation in the Region" in November 2022 at its Upper Hunter Facility in Muswellbrook.

In a bold stride towards a more sustainable future, the University of Newcastle stands at the forefront of climate change as it launches the Hunternet Future Leaders Program for 2022. Sustainability, Servant leadership and Growth were this program's main tenets.

The NUW Alliance - a grouping of four leading Australian universities, The University of Newcastle, the University of Wollongong, UNSW Sydney and Western Sydney University – launches its Six Cities Region Vision featuring 3 pillars of focus – Sustainability, Infrastructure and Women.

Positioned to help champion the ban on single use plastics, the University of Newcastle has been selected as a partner in sustainability with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA).