If you have a creative mind, and are an SME, a web entrepreneur or an ICT developer with a good idea for offering a smarter urban life to Europe’s citizens in areas such as quality of life, mobility, resource efficiency, tourism, cultural heritage, health and […]
Aston Villa’s Kicks programme has inspired major league soccer club, Chicago Fire to set up a similar programme stateside. The Chicago club visited Aston Villa in February 2014 and was extremely impressed by Aston Villa’s approach of engaging young people in ‘at risk’ geographic areas in […]
We are very proud to have the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in our city. Malala Yousafzai won the award in recognition of her “heroic struggle” for girls’ rights to education. In her speech delivered at the Library of Birmingham on the day she […]
The City of Birmingham Olympic Legacy Tour…..Jamaica 2015, are looking for budding cricketers, willing sponsors and enthusiastic supporters to be part of a once in a life-time sporting trip to Jamaica in September 2015. Proudly announcing “Jamaica Here We Come”, the aim of the tour […]
A visit to China by anyone perceived to be from UK officialdom usually involves rounds of intense, lengthy, and, sometimes, perplexing meetings. They’re always interesting, a constant balance of diplomacy and business and the real interpretation work to be done is not in the difference […]
