About veski
A Legacy of Learning, Leadership, and Collaboration
Over its first 20 years, veski has built a lasting legacy of knowledge and capacity building, delivering fellowships, leadership programs, and mentoring initiatives that have equipped researchers, innovators, and the broader STEM community to excel. These programs have expanded Victoria’s expertise, fostered collaboration across sectors, and inspired the next generation, leaving a strong foundation for the state’s future as a global innovation leader.
Our message to Stakeholders
To the individual:
Throughout your STEM career, veski is there by your side.
From those earlier, sometimes even childhood, years of curiosity about STEM through to career development and progression, veski is there for you. veski aims to support, encourage, create and build connections and opportunities for everyone pursuing a career in STEM. Your place of work or education may change over time but you’ll always fit in, belong, at veski as part of our community.
To Government Departments:
veski is a well-connected STEM partner with eyes and ears on the ground.
By supporting, enhancing and extending careers in STEM, veski delivers tangible economic and social impact. The veski community is a potential interface for government to gain direct input on the nature, opportunities and problems to be addressed in STEM-related areas. veski is an efficient and effective delivery vehicle to execute government initiatives in STEM.
To Academic Institutions:
Partnering with veski can lead to more successful outcomes in STEM.
veski provides a supportive community for all levels of STEM from students to leading researchers that has no institutional boundaries.
veski programs can support personal development leading to more impactful STEM outcomes, provide connection to potential industry partners and raise individual and institutional profiles through prestigious award recognition.
To Industry:
veski can be a resource for attracting and retaining the best STEM talent.
veski provides an opportunity to raise corporate profiles across the STEM community, from eager undergraduates through to seasoned professionals.
Connection to veski speaks to an organisation’s commitment to the furtherment of STEM beyond immediate needs and positions as an employer of choice. Presenting and maintaining the corporate profile within the veski network can lead to recruitment of leading talent aligned with corporate needs.
To Philanthropic Benefactors:
veski delivers real impact you can directly experience.
Giving is most rewarding when tangible impact is evident. At veski we build and work with our STEM community across a broad scope of activities from providing direct help in challenging times through to celebrating and recognizing outstanding achievements. By underpinning and supporting STEM talent we help Australia to achievement better outcomes that deliver both economic and social impact.