Civic universities can play a role in the strategic dual impact collaborations building healthier, safer and more resilient UK communities.
Within 12 UK regions, we're inviting universities with published civic university intent to strategically embed their core activities in support of the Dual Impact Collaboration Model (DICM).
Buying
Guide your suppliers into the Dual Impact Collaboration.
Learning
Embed curriculum with local dual impact activities.
Research
Connect with a regional dual impact research hub.
Placements
Link students into public, private & 3rd sector employers.
Join the strategic collaboration!
The DICM focuses on strategic collaboration, connecting charities & social enterprises with businesses who supply into public procurement, with academia being connected deep into the valuable activities building healthier, safer and more resilient communities.
The DICM seamlessly aligns with the Serious Violence Duty and plethora of civic university pledges, whilst enhancing compliance to the Procurement Act 2023 and Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012.
Buying
Join public bodies connecting their supplier social value into the DICM...
Your procurement and social value process can seamlessly align with the DICM alonsgide police, councils, NHS, fire and criminal justice service bodies.
The DICM was created with senior crown and public procurement leaders to make social value a geographic dual impact focus. The Social Purchase Order digital process is hard-wired into locally established activities led by charities & social enterprises supporting the DICM objective.
Enhance your core university activities...
Connect your faculties and research into the DICM activities around you...
Learning
For over a decade, we've developed student live-learning inside 3rd sector operations
Faculties can connect curriculum into DICM activities within live communities.
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.
Research
Social value-funded DICM Research Hubs evaluate dual impact within our ecosystem.
Academics can develop research projects or join research activities.
Within 12 regions, HE plays the lead role in evaluating the longitudinal data across DICM partners, to publish insights and metrics.
Placements
Our ecosystem is home to an enviable membership of business, 3rd sector and public sector employers.
Students have a one-stop UK ecosystem environment to reach employers who who are engaged with the DICM - Placements can be subject-relevant and near where students live.