The Lord Mayor of Birmingham will formally welcome costume design students from our partner city of Lyon who have been undertaking five week work experience placements funded through the Leonardo EU funding programme.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]