Events

Webinars & online events

  • 9, 11, 16, 18 December 2025

    Online Short Course | QGIS for Environmental Practitioners | Short Course 2

    This course is now booked out. Please contact events@eianz.org if you wish to be placed on the waiting list for the next course.

    This online short course “QGIS for Environmental Practitioners”, developed with the University of Western Australia (UWA), will enable you to develop practical QGIS skills with a focus on realistic environmental scenarios.

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  • 18 December 2025

    Webinar | Reforms to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Act 2025

    Join our speakers from the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure who will provide an overview of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Act 2025 and discuss how to navigate the reformed assessment framework.

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  • Mon 2 Feb, Wed 4 Feb, Mon 9 Feb & Wed 11 Feb 2026 at 12:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)

    Online workshop | Streamline and clarify your professional documents: Tools for stronger argument and clearer writing | Workshop 53

    The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand is proud to present an online workshop which will provide Impact Assessment (IA) practitioners with the thinking and writing skills to present data and reach conclusions in a clear evidence-based manner.

    This workshop is targeted to practitioners who are working in government, consultancy and industry, and any other environmental professionals who prepare IA reports.

    This workshop will run over 4 half day sessions on the following dates:
    Monday 2 February, Wednesday 4 February, Monday 9 February & Wednesday 11 February 2026 at 12:00pm - 3:30pm (AEDT)

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  • Thurs 12 Feb, Thurs 19 Feb, Thurs 26 Feb & Thurs 5 Mar 2026 at 12:00pm - 2:30pm (AEDT)

    Online workshop | Artificial Intelligence: Black Belt training | Workshop 8

    The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand is proud to present a series of interactive online workshops on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whether you're just starting or ready to scale AI use, this course will guide participants through the practical steps of applying AI more extensively in your daily work.

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  • Tues 17 March, Thurs 19 March, Tues 24 March & Thurs 26 March 2026 from 12:00pm to 3:30pm (AEDT)

    Online workshop | Meaningful public participation and Impact Assessment: Tools for effective engagement and communications | Workshop 2

    Public participation, often referred to as community engagement, is a cornerstone of impact assessment (IA) and planning approvals processes. However, ongoing challenges to meaningful engagement include:

    • the complexity of the regulatory environment,
    • navigating uncertainty in impact assessment of policies, plans, programmes or projects, and
    • often low levels of public trust in organisations involved in these endeavours, the media, and governance processes[1].

    Join EIANZ and facilitator Tanya Burdett, for training in public participation, with a focus on impact assessment, explores 13 foundational, essential and contextual elements that combine to form meaningful engagement in IA.


    [1] The 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer suggests 61% have moderate or higher sense of grievance, with impacts on trust; and there are similarly low levels of trust in the emerging role of AI according to a recent KPMG / MelbUni study on trust, attitudes and AI use here

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