Academy wins British Council grant

The Academy of Government has recently won funding to co-host a British Council Global Policy Dialogue on ‘Sustainability and the City’ in Spring 2012.

The Academy of Government is delighted to announce that it will work together with the University of Edinburgh Global Academies and the Edinburgh Centre for Climate Change on the project.

Five years ago the world passed a fundamental milestone. For the first time, more people lived in cities than in the countryside. This trend is set to escalate, posing enormous questions for sustainability, cohesion and democracy.

This event will explore the social and environmental dimensions of sustainability in the urban setting, exploring themes including health & wellbeing; connectivity, infrastructure & energy; and social cohesion.

This Policy Dialogue will draw on expertise of leading thinkers and policy-makers from the University of Edinburgh and from the global south, emerging economies and developed nations. Mixing keynote, interactive and plenary sessions, the event will produce concrete outputs for policy makers including a joint declaration.

This page was published on 7 December 2011

Dr Catherine Lyall

"Edinburgh’s ability to foster cross-School collaboration and to engage policy-makers and practitioners in our work – locally and globally – will enable MPP graduates to acquire valuable, practical knowledge of the policy-making process"