SeaStock heads to Switzerland

Australian start-up company SeaStock is the only Australian company to have been selected to participate in the prestigious MassChallenge Switzerland, a leader in helping start-ups grow their businesses. Flinders University experts are working with SeaStock to develop new techniques to propagate Asparagopsis seaweed for its use in methane-reducing feed ingredients. More than 1,200 start-up companies applied for the MassChallenge accelerator program, which has helped accelerate 610 new businesses across multiple industries that have raised more than $A1.6 billion in funding. This program, located in Lausanne, Switzerland, will enable SeaStock to engage with industry experts, corporates, investors and a global community of change-makers. Judging criteria for the challenge focuses on a company’s ability to impact emissions reduction targets and to be both viable commercially and scalable.

Vamp presents virtual Palaeontology

VAMP, the Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology, is a Flinders University palaeontology initiative that goes live this week. The new website, which will share and celebrate 600 million years of digital Australian fossils, has been brought to life with help from Flinders Microscopy and Microanalysis, the South Australian Museum, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, the Western Australian Museum and seed funding provided by the Flinders University College of Science and Engineering.

The VAMP launch party, at Room 1, Level 1, Flinders University at Victoria Square, from 5.30pm on Thursday June 1, will have MC Professor John Long presenting some fascinating short talks from Dr Aaron Camens (Flinders University), Jacob van Zoelen (Flinders University) and Tory Botha (South Australian Museum/University of Adelaide), highlighting the diversity of scanning modalities and applications used in palaeontology. To attend this event, register via Eventbrite.

Supporting health care education

Associate Professor Angie Shafei, Director of Healthcare Administration Programs at Flinders University, and Adjunct Associate Professor Jennifer Hurley, Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer at SA Health, have signed a new College of Business, Government and Law Funding Support Agreement for 10 nurses and midwives employed by SA Health undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Digital Health Management Award.

This provides funding support from SA Health equivalent to the subsidised course fee discount of 20% of the full course fees – equally matched by the College of Business, Government and Law’s 20% discount of the full course fees, offered by Flinders University, to SA Health nurses and/or midwives undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Digital Health Management in FY 2023/2024.