Progress of Council and CQU partnership

A report summarising the progress of a four-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)between Council and CQUniversity (CQU) has outlined a list of successful collaborations, including the development of an online game to help children safely interact with their pets and the employment of student engineers.

Council and CQU signed a four-year MOU on 17 December 2020 with the intent of establishing a collaborative relationship to enhance and progress mutually beneficial outcomes for the Cairns community and Tropical North Queensland.

The report tabled at Council today provided a summary of projects and activities collaboratively delivered in 2023, including:

CQU’s participation and contribution within the Towards 2050: Shaping Cairns Growth Strategy.Council and CQU’s ongoing work towards the realisation of a new CQU Cairns city campus on Council owned land at Hartley St.Council’s Animal Management team collaborated with Digital Media students to develop an on-line game to help primary school aged children to care for and interact with their pets safely.Joint contribution to Study Cairns’ International Education Familiarisation, which brought twenty international education agents to the region from Cairns’ priority and emerging markets.Employment of CQU Student Engineers as part of the student’s mandatory industry placement.