RARE is a community-engaged program that connects postgraduate and undergraduate students with remote and rural enterprises in Australia to collaborate in action-research projects. Students share their skills, expertise and time with the social enterprise while they learn to manage all the problems that these communities are facing.

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The projects of this program aim to deliver practical and accessible recommendations, backed by rigorous academic literature, and market relevant data and information. Their emphasis is placed on community consultation, reviewing local markets, researching best practice internationally and locally, and adapting business models to suit Australia's challenging remote environments, and socio-cultural differences.

 

Students share their skills, expertise and time with the enterprise, while learning to manage uncertainty, multiple stakeholder demands, and the human and economic influences affecting businesses. Social and cultural empathy and respect is also developed during the two-way learning exchanges.

 

If these programs are introduced in every school of the world imagine the impact it would have in society, people would be more aware of things that really matter.