Deakin University, Australia’s sixth largest and Victoria’s first regional university founded in 1974, ranks first in Victoria for both student satisfaction and graduate employment. Deakin operates five campuses; Deakin Cloud, Burwood and three regional campuses in Waurn Ponds, Geelong, and Warrnambool. Deakin’s technology-rich and sophisticated corporate centres at Melbourne’s CBD, Burwood, Waterfront and Waurn Ponds campuses to facilitate partnership with industry, government alumni and professional associations. Deakin also has international offices in South Asia, China, Indonesia, Latin America, Europe, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan and Singapore, and more recently Deakin has officially unveiled its India campus at the GIFT City, making it the first university in the world to open an international teaching campus in India.

Deakin has more than 500 active partnerships in 57 countries supporting education and commercial research and digital innovation. Deakin has been building a global research footprint across its five impact themes in the Defence, AI, Cyber Security, Digital Innovation, Material Science, Mental Health and Nutrition areas, supported by world-class research institutes and groups such as Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A²I²), Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Deakin Cyber, Institute for Intelligent Systems Research & Innovation (IISRI), Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) and Institute for Health Transformation.

Deakin’s Future Economy Precinct is generating high-value knowledge economy jobs for the region, offering an enviable quality of life, dedicated infrastructure and the potential to build on its current success. Deakin continues to develop its research hubs and facilities with a program over $120M in support and investment from the Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund and its industry partners, focusing on affordable clean energy, reviewed manufacturing centre, skills, and digital innovation capital and regional economy. Deakin’s Future Economy Precinct provides an important link between technological innovation and commercial outcomes by linking Deakin’s regional and metro research capabilities guided by its five impact themes with specialised research equipment and industrial-scale infrastructure.

Backed by a $50 million grant from the Australian Government’s Trailblazer Universities Program, with industry and university support taking the total project value to $380 million (the largest program under Trailblazer Universities Program), The Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH) is facilitating the development of greener supply chains and accelerating business success as markets move from a throughput economy to a sustainable circular economy.