Weeds CRC is improving current weed training and developing new initiatives to increase awareness of weed issues and provide skills in weed management at all levels, from the wider community to specialist weed managers.

Review of the value of programs of the CRC for Australian Weed Management
Stage 1 and 2 assessments: Education & Communication programs & programs impacting on threats to the environment

This independent report by ACIL Tasman concluded that the Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management (Weeds CRC) produced significant weed prevention and control benefits that would not have been generated, to the same extent and in the same time scales, in the absence of the Weeds CRC's activities on education, communication and environmental weeds.

The analysis delivered a reasonably robust assessment that activities within these areas have been critical in supporting reasonably tangible benefits of some tens of millions of dollars. These benefits have been enabled by expenditures of the order of $47m (cash and in kind contributions), while drawing on capability from many sources.

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Market Attitude Research Services conducted an investigation into community awareness and attitudes about weeds as a significant problem in Australia for the Weeds CRC in 2003 and again in 2008, including focus group discussions and national telephone surveys of metropolitan and regional cities. Their findings are presented here

Task One - Educate the next generation of weed researchers and managers

Task Two - Develop the skills of weed professionals

Task Three - Increase awareness of Primary and Secondary students