Building Collaborative Partnerships

Recognising the value of universities engaging with issues affecting the wider community and working with organisations outside education, the Strategic Insight Programme (SIP) was launched to help university staff develop and build relationships with external partner organisations.

SIP is a pioneering, fully-funded project to develop these collaborative partnerships by funding short term placements of university staff into external organisations and vice versa, in order to:

• —Gain strategic insights into each other's organisations
• —Stimulate innovation to develop ideas together
• —Provide a fresh perspective
• —Build strategic partnerships for future collaboration
• —Examine how collaborative partnering with universities
  can really be beneficial

About the Programme

The four institutions offer a wide range of expertise and have access to cutting edge research and vast resources, ensuring that partner organisations gain maximum benefit from the placement opportunity.

Where a placement has been successful and a good relationship established, an application for further funding may be available from a number of sources to contribute towards follow-on collaboration. Further information about these schemes, many of which are only available by working with Universities, and assistance with applications is available from the Knowledge Transfer teams at each institution.