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Final Report – The National GAPAUSTRALIAN LEARNING AND TEACHING COUNCILParticipants shared ideas and perspectivesarising from their projects, as well ascollaborating in the exploration of potentialinstitutional strategies drawn from the GAPframework and the resources developed bythe ALTC projects represented at thesymposium. A range of keyrecommendations for action were alsogenerated and forwarded to the ALTC. Thesymposium supported the establishment of acommunity of project teams withcomplementary expertise and perspectiveson the achievement of graduate attributesthrough university learning and teaching. Aset of posters created to summarise the keydrivers, outcomes and challenges ofindividual participating projects waspublished on the National GAP website.The third national GAP symposia wereestablished as a series of five state basedsymposia. Unlike the previous two nationalsymposia, attendance at these events wasnot supported by funding. Over 250 peopleattended these events.Phase 3 HighlightsTeam members from 14 ALTCProjects participate in secondNational GAP symposium inSydneyCross project collaborationsbetween GAP and key relevantnational ALTC projectsstrengthenedExploration and developmentof institutional strategies,drawing on outcomes ofrelevant ALTC projects.Third national GAP symposiaas five state-based events toengage and connect localcommunities of practiceGeneration of 90 expressionsof interest in futurecollaborationsThe focus of these events was to:• support engagement by the HE sector with the GAP framework and GAPIssues papers through local communities of practice;• facilitate the exchange of good practice among members of localcommunities;• connect these communities to local student organisations as key missingstakeholders;• connect members of local graduate attributes communities with emergingnational debates and issues of interest;• connect local participants to other members of the national GAP network;and• connect members of the GAP network with members of a partner networkof graduate attributes experts in Scotland.The GAP project established links with a major national initiative being facilitatedby the QAA in Scotland building on the project’s team’s research expertise andacknowledged graduate attributes leadership. This link will continue to bedeveloped following completion of the GAP project as basis for future projects.The third round of symposia was also designed to establish future potentialcollaborations through the collection of expressions of interest in such work.The National Graduate Attributes Project: Integration and assessment of graduate attributes in curriculum 11