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The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University are focused on helping our local communities and partners recover from the COVID-19 crisis. As part of our response to the challenges we collectively face, we have announced a joint Universities for Nottingham Civic Agreement with our partners, the first of its kind in the UK, setting-out our joint plans for the future including what will be done to aid local recovery and renewal.

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The Universities for Nottingham initiative is a pioneering collaboration, which brings together the combined strength and civic missions of Nottingham’s two world-class universities. Over the next few years it will improve the way we work with each other and with our local partners to help change the lives of local people for the better.

“What makes a place a place?” Nottingham Poet Georgina Wilding introduces the Universities for Nottingham initiative

What's happened so far?

The Universities for Nottingham Civic Agreement is the result of over 400 hours of conversation between over 150 local partners and colleagues across both universities. It sets out an action plan for us to make a difference to the educational opportunity, economic prosperity, health and wellbeing and environmental sustainability of our local communities. As part of the action planning, we will measure the progress we are making working with our partners and report back on a regular basis.

Harry Bagshaw of Worksop Priory C of E School, Children’s University graduate playing the ukulele

For the next generation

We build the foundations for success.

Husna Gul, Nottingham Trent University civil engineering apprentice, wearing a hard hat taking notes on a clipboard

For the ambitious

We are an engine for the aspirations of young people.

Olivia Swift, founder of Lotus Maternity Ltd holds a piece of cloth in the Sneinton textiles factory where some of her products are manufactured

For businesses

We are inextricably linked to the prosperity of Nottingham.

Anika Vassell, founder of Teen-Behaviour.Com Ltd, holding a notepad and talking to a client

For innovators

We are united by a shared commitment to entrepreneurship.

Abdulhameed Elgareidi holds a ball, which he is about to throw towards the camera

For the community

For nearly two centuries we have been part of the Nottingham community.

Isobelle Farrar, winner of Nottingham Young Creatives 2017 laying her illustrations out on the floor

For creatives

We support Nottingham’s thriving cultural sector.

Malcom Graham, patient on the scarred liver pathway, outside The Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham

For patients

We help make Nottingham healthier.

Nick Ebbs, Vice Chair of igloo Regeneration, holding a keyboard looking at a digital screen

For policymakers

We are working to make Nottingham and Nottinghamshire better.

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Our ambition

Our ambition is to use this base as a foundation from which we can work more effectively with each other and with our partners to unlock the talent and expertise of our two universities. Together, we want to help drive improvements in economic prosperity, educational opportunity, health and wellbeing and environmental sustainability across our region.

Through this initiative we want to say clearly to the people, communities and businesses with whom we share a common place, that we are also your universities… the Universities for Nottingham.

Explore the impact of the universities in more detail

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100,000+

volunteer hours given to good causes by over 5, 000 students and 500 staff

813

teachers working in local schools and nurseries were trained at our universities in the last three years

700+

new businesses established over the last 5 years supported by NTU’s The Hive and the University of Nottingham Ingenuity Lab

916

specialist medical staff working in the local community trained at our universities in the last 3 years

We support the creative industries directly through cultural organisations like Nottingham Contemporary, the Creative Quarter Company, the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies and Nottingham Lakeside Arts

5,985

students from Nottinghamshire studying at our two universities

£145 million

boost to the local economy every year from our 15,000 international students from 137 different countries

45,000+

business delegates using our facilities including the East Midlands Conference Centre, the Orchard Hotel and the Jubilee Centre