Since its inception in January 2020, the Eurocities Children and Young People’s working group has been working online to exchange best practice around child poverty. Created and chaired by Leeds City Council, we intended to host a study visit to Leeds this month to look at food poverty, digital access and mental health, and how… Read More Leeds hosts Virtual Mutual Learning visit on child poverty and mental health
Colleagues from Leeds City Council have been showcasing Leeds’ approach to placemaking at the international conference, Healthy City Design 2020, which saw over 400 delegates come together to discuss how public health professionals, designers, architects and planners can work together to create healthier cities. Leeds City Council’s Principal Design Officer, Jenny Fisher, alongside Advanced Health… Read More Leeds showcases city’s approach to placemaking
Leeds City Council joined experts from Israel and the UK for an online event that explored how education and ed-tech have evolved during the Covid-19 crisis. The webinar, organised by the Embassy of Israel, provided stakeholders in education with the chance to hear about the challenges and opportunities that the education sector has faced around… Read More Leeds joins experts from Israel and the UK to discuss the importance of ed-tech
The Leader of the Council, Councillor Judith Blake, took part in a session on the theme of “green cities” yesterday as part of the high profile Prague European Summit. Speaking alongside Zdeněk Hřib, the Mayor of Prague and Lilyana Pavlova, the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, Councillor Blake was part of a panel discussing… Read More Leeds joins European debate on green cities
Earlier this year Leeds became Chair of a new working group for children and young people within the EUROCITIES network. Part of the role is to represent European cities at high level events on children’s issues such as the EU Forum on the Rights of the Child which took place online this week. Representing Leeds… Read More Putting forward the voice of cities and young people in Europe
Working in partnership with the major European city network, EUROCITIES, we’re organising an online event, as part of the wider Leeds Digital Festival, which will discuss how living labs can create opportunities for cities to become smart places. The event will take place on Thursday 01 October 09:30 – 11:10 (BST – UK TIME) The… Read More REGISTER NOW – Leeds & EUROCITIES have teamed up to look at how living labs can help create Smart Cities
This month saw Leeds launch a city working group on Children and Young People which will bring together major cities from across Europe to share ideas and best practice to help improve the lives and outcomes of children living in our cities. The working group, which forms part of the European city network EUROCITIES with… Read More Leeds launches European working group on Children
ODI Leeds (Open Data Institute) is continuing to strengthen its partnership with the Kingdom of the Netherlands through its Northernlands collaboration, a celebration of innovation and creativity from the North of the UK and the Netherlands. The ‘Northernlands’ partnership began back into 2019 with an event at Leeds Digital Festival and has continued to go… Read More ODI Leeds builds on partnership with the Netherlands
Did you know that Leeds Industrial Museum has a twinning relationship with the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum? The relationship came about five years ago when the Friends of the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum (FSLNRM) presented Leeds Industrial Museum with a plaque to commemorate the fact that both museums are home to locomotives made… Read More Full steam ahead – Leeds Industrial Museum celebrates international partnership
Last week, Leeds City Council, in collaboration with the Leeds Academic Health Partnership and University of Leeds, hosted a visit from healthcare leaders, businesses and investors from Sweden, who were in Leeds to hear about the city’s strengths in health technologies. Chief Officer for Economic Development, Eve Roodhouse, presented an overview of the healthtech sector… Read More Swedish healthtech delegation visits Leeds
