Innovation, collaboration and engagement with external partners

This informative and interactive session will allow delegates to learn about the opportunities and challenges in Business and Community Engagement. These issues are faced by all institutions who collaborate to make resources available to external partners. Attendees will benefit from discussion around the issues.

Access to resources projects OpenBiz and Engage, funded by the JISC Business and Community Engagement programme, will provide case studies of collaboration between Further/Higher Education and business. They will also inform participants of online resources available to support collaboration which will be openly available and transferrable to other institutions.

Delegates will also learn about and be able to access the Acumen toolkit produced by JISC TechDis which offers institutions free tools and information sources on the use of IT in business, designed to enhance new and existing projects and partnerships.