Play a role in the strategic collaborations building healthier, safer and more resilient UK communities
Learning
Embed student learning into community activities & impact.
Research
Connect academics with regional impact research hubs.
Placements
Connect students into public, private & 3rd sector employers.
Mobilise your civic university pledge and core academic provisions...
This collaborative UK marketplace was built with and for public procurement to channel social value into community organisations to sustain impact activities over the long-term.
Civic universities can play a significant role in support community impact, and even operate local impact research projects which help shape policy, practice and investment to build healthier, safer and more resilient UK communities.
A civic university can deploy its core activities into charities and social enterprises being supported within the social value marketplace and public buying.
Learning
For over a decade, we've facilitated powerful student live-learning inside 3rd sector operations where faculties connect the curriculum into real community organisations and activities.
Lecturers can build live-learning into a wide variety of courses, with links already established into community organisations enabling students to practice the theory as WRL, boosting Graduate Outcomes.
Research
Social value within the marketplace funds our DICM Research Hubs, a self-financing approach to evaluate impact within each marketplace area.
Academics can develop or join ongoing research activities in 44 areas of the UK, part of the longitudinal evaluation of community-led activities and resulting impact, to publish new insights and metrics.
Placements
Our ecosystem is home to an enviable membership body of business, 3rd sector and public sector employers.
Placement teams have a unique opportunity to maximise our ecosystem membership to reach employers who are already engaged within the marketplace - Placements can be subject-relevant and near where students live.