ACRN 2026 Symposium, Adelaide

#ACRN2026

Dates: Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd October, 2026

Location: Function Room 1, Union House, The University of Adelaide, Victoria Drive, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia

We are delighted to announce an exciting collaboration between:

• The Australasian Coastal Restoration Network (ACRN)

• The Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA)

• The Cooperative Research Centre for Transformations in Mining Economies (CRC TiME)

For 2026, we have decided to align our programs and host all three events in the same week and city to foster deeper conversations, networking and collaboration - while also helping to reduce travel time and costs for many of our shared communities.

More details about this exciting collaboration, joint sessions and registration details will be released over the coming months.

The ACRN is committed to becoming a more inclusive space, and a meaningful part of that is ensuring that Indigenous practitioners, knowledge holders, and partners are genuinely represented at our events to help shape the conversations we have.

We know that many of you work alongside Indigenous partners in your projects, and we'd love for those partnerships to be visible at the symposium. With that in mind, we're asking members to:

• Think about whether any of your Indigenous partners or collaborators might be interested in presenting, contributing to a panel, or attending the symposium, and start that conversation with them early.

• Explore funding options within your own institutions, grants, or projects that could support their registration, travel, and accommodation. Many project budgets have provisions for engagement or knowledge translation that may apply.

• Encourage and support abstract submissions from Indigenous partners where relevant—the abstract submission deadline is CoB Thursday, 9 July—please contact us if this deadline is an issue.

• Let us know if you're pursuing this so we can offer support, share leads on relevant funding sources, or connect you with others doing the same.

We recognise that meaningful inclusion takes planning and resourcing, and we don't want funding barriers to be the reason Indigenous voices are absent from our symposium. We're working on this from our end too, and will share more if there are new developments.

If you have questions, ideas, please don’t hesitate to contact us at: coastalrestorationnetwork@gmail.com

People & Communities

Governance, Coordination & Funding

Environment & Future-Climate

Tools, Technologies & Approaches

To be confirmed…

Watch this space…

Field trip

Details coming soon…

We extend our sincere gratitude to our valued funders for their generous support that has greatly contributed to ACRN's endeavours:

• The National Environmental Science Program’s (NESP) Marine and Coastal hub

• The NSW Marine Estate Management Strategy

We also thank our partners, James Cook University and CSIRO.

Here at the ACRN, we acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians and First Nations Peoples and communities who have cared for marine and coastal habitats for millennia. We are committed to increasing our cultural safety and capability and ensuring that partnerships with First Nations People are preferred and explored, where possible, in marine and coastal restoration projects. Our team pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work and play and extends that to the lands, waterways, seas, and skies of our extended network.