Eidos Institute
Eidos proudly supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart and acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands across Australia. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present, and emerging.
About
Eidos, an impartial incubator of fresh ideas and critical thinking, is a network of partners seeking to change the way Australia’s important social and economic challenges are solved for the benefit of all.
Eidos does this using an action-research method, engaging with its partners and experts to bring forward insights speedily, make sense of the intelligence received, define innovative actions and arrange connections for their implementation.
Our Community
Partnerships
Eidos values its connections to partners. These valuable partnerships allow us to further our mission through mutually beneficial collaboration and joint projects.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT):
QUT was proudly a founding member of Eidos in 2004 and since 2018, has been Eidos’ core partner. QUT and Eidos share many values. The Australian Centre funds an Eidos Community Liaison Officer position for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT Business School. This role spearheads this partnership with professional support, strategic activities and operations.
Queensland Government:
Eidos has strong working relationships with Queensland Government agencies. In partnership with QUT, Eidos has facilitated a number of grounded-research projects for undergraduate and postgraduate students, who work on public policy challenges framed by Queensland Government agencies. This forms part of the larger Community-partnered Social Solutions program.
Mind Hive:
Eidos founded MindHive and retains an interest as a shareholder and service user. A key element of the Eidos/MindHive partnership is reciprocal support for collaborative problem-solving projects and forums.
Minter Ellison:
Eidos and Minter Ellison have a common interest and expertise in social enterprise, impact investing and philanthropy, and social purpose in businesses. The partnership is centred on forums for innovative thinkers to promote shared economic and social value practices in business.
Initiatives
Community-Partnered Social Solutions
ComPaSS (Community-Partnered Social Solutions) a collaborative project between Eidos, QUT and the Queensland Government, designed to introduce QUT students and academics to pressing social problems, inviting them to think creatively and critically about potential solutions.
Creating and sharing knowledge and insights
Consistent with our goal of promoting critical thinking and fresh, imaginative insights, Eidos has designed and conducted a series of seminars, forums and roundtables, which have connected diverse and creative thinkers to current problems that matter to the Australian community.
Reshaping Culture, Reclaiming Trust–Seminar
Delivered and developed by Eidos in partnership with QUTeX, the Executive Education arm of QUT, the seminar focused on the current disaffection and mistrust in our public institutions and what to do about it.
Shaping Australia’s policy future–Seminar
Delivered and developed by Eidos in partnership withQUTeX, the Executive Education arm of QUT, the seminar focused on insightful, high-impact andappropriate solutions to public policy challenges
Connect
As a network we actively encourage individuals, organisations and the broader community to get in touch. With an end goal to serve the public interest, we partner impartially to serve the whole Australian community, not private or sectoral interests.