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With about 50 participants nominated by 8 of Tasmania’s 11 seafood bodies, SIT will facilitate up to four one-to-two day governance courses in the 12-month period after funds are secured. Participants will mostly be directors of Tasmania’s seafood bodies; other relevant roles (e.g. executive officers, project managers, etc.) are also invited.
Courses will be delivered by accredited governance experts. The course will be tailored for non-profit organisation, with a focus on the seafood industry. SIT will work with participants and the training provider to ensure, wherever possible, cross-sectional representation of seafood bodies in each class. There may be an opportunity to deliver training at different venues around the state. Participants have an opportunity to gain competency certification at the end of the course.
There is an immediate benefit for boards as participants gain knowledge and a level of competency around corporate governance. Governance of Tasmania’s seafood bodies will improve as directors understand their roles more fully. Governance training enables and enhances organisational succession planning and supports capacity building within the seafood industry. Creating a pool of trained individuals help to future proof leadership in the seafood industry.
The vision is to run a full course every two years, providing opportunities for new entrants to gain knowledge and competency.

Capability & Capacity: 2024 Australian/NZ eDNA conference - Early Career Research bursaries

Project number: 2024-016

Project Status:

Completed

Budget expenditure: $5,000.00

Principal Investigator: Maarten De Brauwer

Organisation: Southern Cross University (SCU) National Marine Science Centre

Project start/end date: 12 Sep 2024 - 6 Mar 2025

Contact:

FRDC

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Conference

Capacity Building

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This conference is organised by the Southern eDNA Society (SeDNAs - sednasociety.com), Australia and New Zealand's scientific society for the environmental DNA discipline. SeDNAS aims to promote best practices and help the adoption of methods across sectors, by closely working together with researchers, industry, and government. Conferences are organised biannually, alternating between Australia and New Zealand. The first conference (Hobart 2023) was uniformly well received by the attendees, particularly the focus on end-user applications and collaboration. Unlike many other scientific conferences, SeDNAs makes a point of inviting key stakeholders from industry and government to both attend the conference and present their own work or research needs. We found this stimulated discussions to be more likely to develop real-world research collaborations of higher relevance to end-users.

Including and supporting ECRs is an integral part of the mission of SeDNAs. We offer a range of sponsorship opportunities, but as part of our drive to ensure eDNA research benefits industry stakeholders, we are reaching out to key organisations interested in supporting ECRs to travel to the conference. FRDC bursaries would showcase the relevance of FRDC to upcoming molecular fisheries researchers and the broader eDNA community, while also offering FRDC a cost-efficient opportunity to remain abreast of the most cutting edge developments in the field.