Students from across Greater Manchester gathered to address our region’s most important environmental challenges in the first Green Careers Mission event. The groundbreaking collaborative initiative, pioneered by Greater Manchester’s Civic University Agreement partners, brought together students from a variety of disciplines and levels to tackle real-world challenges set by industry partners, aligned with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)’s Environmental Plan.

Students from across Greater Manchester gathered to address our region’s most important environmental challenges in the first Green Careers Mission event. The groundbreaking collaborative initiative, pioneered by Greater Manchester’s Civic University Agreement partners, brought together students from a variety of disciplines and levels to tackle real-world challenges set by industry partners, aligned with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)’s Environmental Plan.

Greater Manchester Civic University Agreement marks its 1st Year

Mapping Greater Manchester begins as two Q-Step Data Fellows, Vanessa and Shakira, join the project.

Today, we are announcing that Greater Manchester’s higher education institutions and the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham have signed a flagship agreement that will see us deepen and widen our collaboration to support the city region in meeting its ambitions to be the best place to grow up, get on and grow old.

We worked with the independent consultancy and British Polling Council member Public First to poll our residents in a representative sample across all ten authorities in Greater Manchester to find out how we are viewed. We have published the full findings to share what we have learned, and to show how we will reflect on these when drawing up our CUA.