EVENT UPDATE FOR PUBLIC RELEASE City Drive Celebrating 5 years of Capacity-building the Social Enterprise Sector Social enterprise infrastructure organisation iSE are hosting their annual week-long event ‘City Drive’ with 2018 being the 5th anniversary of Digbeth as an accredited Social Enterprise Place.  City Drive […]

Councillor Waseem Zaffar, Cabinet Member for Transport and Sustainability, and Philip Edwards, Assistant Director Transportation and Connectivity, visited Frankfurt on 24 October to work on new strategies to improve Birmingham’s sustainable transport infrastructure. The study visit included meetings with the Frankfurt’s Economic Development GmbH, the […]

Wednesday 7 March, 6.15-8pm The Curzon Building (City Centre Campus), 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham B4 7BD Birmingham City University FREE More information and to book: www.bcu.ac.uk/citytalks   To celebrate the launch of Europe’s first Black Studies degree, Birmingham City University will be hosting what promises […]

Birmingham Lord Mayor, Raymond Hassall took part in an event organised for HM Queen Elisabeth II during her visit to Frankfurt on 25 June 2015. He was officially invited by the Mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldmann and Volker Bouffier, Minister-President of the Garman State of Hesse to take […]

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 […]

You can now register for the Climate-KIC short courses at Aston University on 2 & 3 October. Short courses are part of the autumn educational programme at Climate-KIC. Two of these short courses are coming up soon: The first is ‘Developing the bioeconomy throughout Europe‘, hosted […]

In the context of the strategic partnership between the University of Birmingham and Goethe University, Frankfurt, a delegation from Birmingham is participating in this year’s University and the City Conference. The main aims of the conference are to investigate interrelations between higher education institutions and […]

It is now less than a year to go until Birmingham’s partner city Milan will open the Expo 2015. Under the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”, more than 140 countries are going to present their technology and innovation as well as culture and […]

The Sister Cities of Birmingham and Johannesburg are currently developing a series of collaborative projects to address a number of common interests and challenges. With the objective of gaining mutual practical benefit, the two cities are working together around issues of city management, youth and […]

BETTER is an Interreg Europe project of five city governments (Genoa- IT, Tartu-EE, Nyíregyháza-HU, Birmingham- UK and Gävle – SE) whose mission is to support public authorities to develop their regional innovation strategies and improve them with e-government services to stimulate regional innovation chain. BETTER […]