Birmingham City Council is part of a new EU funded research and development project which was launched in December 2013 in Lyon. Led by Greater Lyon, the OPTICITIES project will develop and test intelligent transport systems (ITS) solutions in six different cities to help reduce […]

The Commonwealth Association has now been established under the Chairmanship of Mr Keith Stokes – Smith. Like the other Associations membership and focus centres around business and trade; education; culture; community; sport and local government. As the Commonwealth currently comprises some 53 countries the work […]

Representatives of Birmingham City Council, Birmingham City University, University of Birmingham and West Midlands Police visited Chicago in November 2013 to progress various elements of the current work programme agreed between the 2 cities.  In essence engagement between Birmingham and Chicago is stronger now than […]

North America is important to the people and organisations of Birmingham. In recognition of that a related Association has been established under the chairmanship of Professor Jo Andrews from Birmingham City University. With the intention of promoting meaningful engagement between Birmingham and North America the […]

Birmingham was successfully re-elected to the positions of EUROCITIES Secretary and Environment Forum Chair for a further 12 months at the EUROCITIES AGM on 29 November in Ghent. Birmingham is one of 12 cities which form the EUROCITIES Executive Committee. Warsaw (President), Nantes (Vice-President), Ghent […]

On 29 October 2013, Birmingham hosted a delegation from Lyon headed by the Mayor of Lyon, Gérard Collomb. Dating back to 1951, Lyon is Birmingham’s longest-standing partner city. During his time in Birmingham, Monsieur Collomb was shown some of the latest regeneration activity in the […]

Innovation Birmingham’s Entrepreneurs for the Future (e4f) start-up support programme was shortlisted for a EUROCITIES award at a ceremony which took place in Ghent, Belgium on 27 November 2013. Birmingham was shortlisted in the ‘smart jobs’ category alongside Brighton’s Employability Advice and Careers Hut and […]

On 30 October 2013, guests at Bournville College’s centenary celebrations were given a taste of a new annual Lighting Festival in Longbridge with outdoor light installations by the Lyonnais artists associations ‘Pitaya’ and ‘Collectif Coin’. Following the example of the Lyonnais Fête des Lumières, the […]