‘Culture Campus … an innovation river’, Professor Sara Selwood

The Culture Campus vision is to establish Liverpool as an internationally renowned centre for excellence in innovative collaboration between the higher education and cultural sectors, so helping to attract and retain the talent and creativity, vital to the future success of the City Region and to achieve Liverpool’s ambition to be a thriving international city by 2024.

Culture Campus operates as a strategic driver and catalyst, brokering collaborations between the higher education institutions and the cultural sector in Liverpool. At it’s core is an interdisciplinary approach creating an environment where productive collaborations are forged and ideas flourish – stimulating innovative stimulating innovative research practice in a climate of intellectual openness. Culture Campus enhances the student experience and develops graduate programmes and internships in order to retain graduates in the city and provide organisations with the skilled people they need to succeed.

The Board provides the strategic leadership and stimulus essential to collaboration. Liverpool City of Learning was asked to become the shared services developer for partners in 2008. It has undertaken this with considerable success building on a track record of joint working in the city. City of Learning is a minimal organisation, which has a big impact, raising significant additional resources for partnership projects and exploring and creating productive initiatives.