How does Knowledge Transfer fit within the Melbourne Experience?
In outlining the Melbourne Experience, the University of Melbourne expects its graduates to be educated, well-informed citizens who are able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work.
The University's ideal of the Melbourne Experience is:
- An educationally focussed community, where staff and students work together to strengthen teaching, learning and the pursuit of knowledge;
- An articulate and open community, where freedom of expression is protected, and new and difficult questions are explored;
- An international community, for which the campus experience is made richer by being located in the heart of a multicultural city;
- A lively community, where students are invited to participate in student clubs, debates, sport and community service;
- A fair community, where diversity is valued and the integrity of the individual is respected;
- A principled community, where explicit codes of academic honesty, of ethics and of good conduct guide behaviour and students and staff accept their obligations to others;
- A caring community, where the well-being of each student and staff member is supported according to their individual needs and where service and the support of others is encouraged; and
- A celebratory community, where the University's history and achievements are known and honoured and its living traditions widely shared.
Under the Melbourne Experience, the University expects its students to have an international awareness based on understanding of social, cultural and linguistic diversity, and on respect for the physical environment and individual human rights and dignity.
That goal can be realised significantly through knowledge transfer activities that directly link the University to the wider community, through programs such as internships, the Student Ambassador Leadership Program (which provides training seminars, workshops and volunteer service) and research opportunities that offer engagement with business, government and community organisations.