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Salford Innovation Forum

The Salford Innovation Forum – home of People’s Voice Media and Unlimited Potential – promotes community-university interfaces where co-creation occurs quite naturally. It was developed by a consortium that consisted of the University, The City of Salford, MIDAS and the North West Development Agency and they set out a vision to develop a unique concept for the city.

Higher learning for all

Many universities are now working actively with local communities, using the most advanced learning technologies, to open up higher learning to people of all ages. And it’s not too young to start this process as the photograph opposite portrays; indeed, many ‘toddlers’ now use smart mobile phone, iPads and simple computing tools long before they learn to tie their laces; 72% of children under five spend an average of half an hour on line each day.

Designing a community inclusive Media City

Media City – the new northern home of the BBC, was designed as a partnership between universities and the local community in Salford. Part of its aim was to develop new futures for Salford and Greater Manchester. It uses distributed learning, alongside more traditional approaches, in what some call a media conversation. Media city will go beyond broadcast, it properly engages local communities through new forms of television.

Bouncing Higher

‘Bouncing Higher’ was a successful balanced learning approach by six North West Universities in the UK. It was a combination of action learning, open learning and coaching - which helped 130 small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the North of England increase their Gross Value Added profitability through innovation by some 24.5%.

People's Voice Media - Community Reporters

People’s Voice Media, a social enterprise in Manchester backed by two local universities, has trained over 1,000 Community Reporters to video local events with flip video cameras. They then use social networking to portray their recorded events to each other, and the BBC North. This has empowered local people to develop the confidence to discuss their issues and worries with all sorts of senior people, in a powerful and compelling way.

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