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Australia-Thailand Institute

The Australia-Thailand Institute (ATI) was established in 2005 to promote bilateral relations with Thailand and to expand institutional and people-to-people links.

Chair of The ATI to Attend the Official Launch of SwimSafe Thailand

Mr Mike Courtnall, Chair of the Australia-Thailand Institute, will be attending the official launch, in Bangkok, of SwimSafe Thailand.

The ATI supported the SwimSafe Thailand project, collaboration between The Alliance for Safe Children (TASC), the Royal Life Saving Society – Australia and the College of Public Health Sciences at Chulalongkorn University.  The project makes use of innovative portable swimming pools to teach children survival swimming and water safety skills.  These skills are known to prevent drowning, which is the leading killer of children after infancy in Thailand.

SwimSafe Thailand recently announced their official launch to be held on 24 November 2009 at Mahaparp Krajadthong Uppatham School in Samut Prakan, Bangkok.

This will be an exciting opportunity for all project partners to come together and shed light on the important contributions SwimSafe is making to reducing the drowning problem in Thailand, whilst celebrating the opening of a new pool with the school community.

The event will include presentations from project partners, including the ATI Chair, other donors and the school and a demonstration of survival swimming and CPR skills from the lucky first round of students to participate in the program.

Photo: SwimSafe Thailand

Photo: Swim Survival training Samut Prakan (photograph courtesy of Tracie Reinten).

Further information may be found at www.swimsafe.org/Thailand.

About the Australia-Thailand Institute

The mission of the Australia - Thailand Institute (ATI) is to advise the Australian Government, through the Minister for Foreign Affairs, on broadening and deepening the relationship between Australia and Thailand and to undertake and support programs that strengthen next generation links between Australia and Thailand.

The ATI's goals are:

  1. Contribute to the development of Australia's political and economic relations with Thailand and support Australia's broader diplomatic objectives in Thailand
  2. Broaden awareness and understanding in Australia and Thailand of each other's culture, values and traditions, including sport
  3. Generate increased institutional and people-to-people contacts between Australia and Thailand
  4. Publicly promote the Australia-Thailand relationship and establish relations through media and alumni activities in order to facilitate long-term bilateral links

For more information on the ATI's functions and objectives see the ATI Strategic Plan 2009-2012.

ATI Grant Applications

The ATI grant funding round is now closed.

The next ATI grant round will open in April 2010.

ATI information

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» ATI Strategic Plan 2009-2012

» ATI Program Report 2007-08 [PDF 365 Kb]

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For inquiries regarding the Institute please contact:

Australia-Thailand Institute Secretariat
South-East Asia Division
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
R G Casey Building
John McEwen Crescent
BARTON ACT 0221

tel +61 2 6261 3202
fax +61 2 6261 1304
email austhailand.institute@dfat.gov.au