Government has identified funding as one of the Capitals that must be addressed to achieve levelling up. A panel of sector experts, drawn from the Civic University Network Advisory Group, will discuss what universities can bring to address the challenges of funding levelling up, and answer your questions on this important agenda.

In November 2021, the Civic University Network and the NHS Confederation published a report exploring the critical relationship between universities and the NHS, and their collective role in contributing to their local society and economy. This report was intended to guide university and NHS leaders across the UK as they sought to reimagine and reinvigorate university and NHS relationships through a period of sustained change – co-creating a renewed, post-pandemic partnership that puts place first.

This joint Civic University Network and NHS Confederation webinar will hear from universities and NHS leaders at different stages of embedding health within their Civic University Agreements. We will hear about the role that health – in all its forms – plays in these renewed partnerships and explore the typical areas of university-NHS collaboration, why they were selected and the mechanics of collaboration.

In February 2022, the Independent Commission on the College of the Future and Sheffield Hallam University published a report on college and university collaboration. This session will explore a range of collaborative projects, programmes and partnerships across the tertiary systems in the four nations.

A series of case studies, which represent the rich diversity of collaboration across the UK, will be examined to unpick how these relationships are formed and sustained, and their challenges and successes. The panel will seek to answer the questions: how do partnerships thrive in a wider ecosystem that often pits colleges and universities against each other, what are the features of a successful partnership between colleges and universities, and what needs to change across to enable more collaboration?

Following the recent launch of the Business in the Community (BITC) Place Taskforce Report, this session will explore universities and businesses working together to drive forward place-based regeneration.

This event marks the publication of a joint report by the Civic University Network and the Institute for Community Studies, exploring the role of HEI’s in the climate action agenda, supporting place and communities in their just transition to net zero.

The report launched at this event summarises the discussions and findings from a series of roundtables, which brought together institutions from across the UK situated in places and communities with common transition challenges, putting forward a typology and an emerging place-based framework to explore the role of HEIs in the climate action agenda.