Global Evidence Exchange
Partner to Explore. Partner to Share. Partner to Improve.
Communities everywhere — from neighbourhoods in Australia to towns and villages across the world — care deeply about their environment. Young people, families and community groups already have the strengths needed to understand environmental change: curiosity, observation, local knowledge and a desire to protect what matters.
teachSTEM’s Global Evidence Exchange program connects these strengths across borders. It brings together youth and community groups in Australia with their peers in other countries to investigate shared environmental challenges and exchange evidence, insights and solutions.
This program is driven by hope, not crisis — and by capability, not struggle. And because each project is paired across countries, every donation creates a multiplier effect, building environmental understanding in more than one place at once.
How the Sister-Community Model Works
Most global giving is reactive – focused on emergencies and crisis relief. teachSTEM supporters choose something different. They choose to fund hope, capability, and the strengths communities already have.
Each donation helps establish matched Citizen Science Corners, one in Australia and one overseas, where youth and community members investigate shared environmental challenges using accessible tools and methods. These environmental challenges are ones that affect all communities across the globe, such as air quality, water health, biodiversity, plastic pollution, and soil and land systems.
Both communities share findings, compare patterns and discuss practical actions that make sense in their own context. It is a genuine community-to-community exchange that is grounded in mutual respect, shared capability and real environmental contribution.
Benefits for Youth and Communities in Australia
Communities gain opportunities to:
- investigate environmental change close to home
- connect with youth and families overseas
- compare real evidence across regions
- strengthen local environmental literacy
- take part in global problem-solving
People see that their actions matter — locally and globally.
Benefits for Youth and Communities Overseas
Partner communities gain:
- tools that amplify local knowledge
- training that builds lasting capability
- opportunities to lead community conversations
- evidence that supports local health and environment decisions
- the chance to share insights with communities abroad.
