Join the collaboration for a dual impact!
Universities inside our ecosystem enhance their core activities, whilst playing a direct role in building healthier, safer and more resilient communities.
Buying
Guide your suppliers into a regional dual impact objective.
Learning
Provide live-learning between curriculum & communities.
Research
Join regional impact research to shape public policy & practice.
Placements
Connect students into public, private & 3rd sector employers.
Higher Education is joining the dual impact collaboration within 12 UK regions...
Over 100 UK universities are being invited to join and strategically align with the regional collaborations for a dual impact. This aligns their procurement operations, the teaching & learning, knowledge exchange, research and graduate outcomes objective with communities inside our ecosystem.
HE Buying: Harness your supplier social value...
Join public bodies connecting supplier social value into the Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM)...
As an ecosystem member, you can connect-in your procurement alongside police, councils, NHS, fire and criminal justice service bodies.
Across your region, the DICM is a strategic approach to build supply contracts which are hard-wired into locally established activities led by charities & social enterprises supported within our ecosystem.
Dual Impact
(1) Geographically connecting businesses into the programmes/services proven to be delivering impact from building healthier, safer and more resilient communities;
(2) Sustaining this impact, helping in reducing the frontline costs of policing, healthcare, social services and criminal justice.
Membership will enhance your core university activities...
Here, you can connect your faculties and research groups into DICM activities around you...
Knowledge Exchange
For over a decade, we've pioneered student live-learning inside 3rd sector operations
Here, your faculties can connect curriculum into our live communities within the ecosystem.
Lecturers can build live-learning into a wide variety of their courses, with links established inside community organisations for practicing the theory as WRL - boosting Graduate Outcomes.
Impact Research
We've established regional impact research within our ecosystem.
Your academics can join the ecosystem's Dual Impact Research Hubs funded through the DICM.
This is an exclusive income source for academics and also students to apply for funding, or join a Hub research project.
Student Placements
We've established an enviable business, 3rd sector and public sector community inside our ecosystem.
Here, universities have a one-stop access to an employer community aligned within our ecosystem; developing Placements which are subject-relevant and located near to where students live.
It costs you nothing to join our ecosystem...
We're connecting with universities to help them enrich student learning and employability, whilst mobilising their civic/social impact intent.
Connect your existing activities into communities within our ecosystem.