Firebirds of 2025

Sponsorships and brand partnerships

Creating change together.

At UQ, we’re passionate about partnering with organisations that align with our goals: transforming lives through lifelong learning, supporting impactful research initiatives, and enriching the Queensland community.

Sponsorship criteria

UQ sponsors organisations through partnerships that:

  • align with our values, overall direction, and strategic priorities
  • meet UQ’s definition of a sponsorship or brand partnership. 

UQ may also provide conference sponsorship, generally less than $15,000, where the conference supports a UQ research focus or study area.

Apply for a sponsorship

Interested in partnering with UQ? Please read UQ's sponsorship guidelines (PDF, 183.38 KB) before submitting your request. 

Apply for a UQ sponsorship

Partnership priorities 

Priority is given to opportunities that:

Reach our audiences

Help us access key audiences, including:

  • Prospective undergraduate students from under-represented backgrounds
  • Prospective postgraduate coursework students
  • Prospective research partners.

Build brand affinity

Enable us to build brand affinity with:

  • education equity in Queensland
  • diversity and inclusion
  • reconciliation

Showcase our strengths 

Demonstrate our capability in:

  • research excellence
  • public good
  • student learning opportunities 
  • global impact

Partnership in action

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22 - 29 March

World Science Festival Brisbane UQ

See UQ experts in action at the World Science Festival with topics from the revolution of food production to ancient Egyptian mummies and the science of fashion.
South Brisbane

Our partners

UQ’s partnerships create change for our students, researchers, alumni, staff, and the wider community.

Firebirds

We are a premier partner of Netball Queensland and the Queensland Firebirds and proudly support women’s sport across professional, emerging and grassroots levels.

Brisbane Writers Festival

UQ is an honoured major partner of the Brisbane Writers Festival, celebrating the importance of curiosity, creativity and literature as well as a supporting partner of Word Play.

World Science Festival Brisbane

As an academic partner of the World Science Festival Brisbane, UQ explores and celebrates science through conversations, experiences, workshops and activities.

Queensland Young Achiever Awards

The Awards encourage, acknowledge and reward the valuable contribution of young people, up to the age of 29, throughout Queensland.