UN SDG 17: Partnership for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Our research
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been created between Peer Works, a programme delivered by Prosper, the Productivity Institute at the University of Manchester, and the Scotland Productivity Forum, led by the University of Glasgow.
Our Adam Smith Business School and School of Social & Political Sciences is a partner in the Productivity Institute, which is headquartered at Alliance Manchester Business School. Economic and business specialists, together with leading experts from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, are working directly with policymakers and business to better understand, measure and enable improvements in productivity across the UK.
Increasing productivity and innovation in Scotland is crucial to transforming the economy and the three organisations are uniquely placed to collaborate in order to drive increased productivity across businesses, and help deliver the ambitions of the Scottish Government.
The MoU will formalise the existing working partnership, which includes a research project and events. This will see the partners working more closely on policy initiatives, impactful events, collaborative research and in the communication of good practice to employers around ways to increase their productivity.
Learning & teaching
The University has signed an MoU with the Arab American University Palestine (AAUP).
The MoU will promote medical collaboration between the two universities, including hosting students from AAUP in Glasgow, to gain experience of clinical practice in the UK.
The agreement was signed by Professor Rachel Sandison, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of External Engagement and Vice-Principal of External Relations at Glasgow, and Professor Mohammad Asia, President Assistant for Medical Faculties and the Dean of the Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences at AAUP.
AAUP, located in the city of Jenin in the Palestinian West Bank, is building links with a number of UK universities to help develop scientific and medical collaboration.
University operations
The University of Glasgow is proud of the wide-ranging international, domestic and local partnerships we continue to build. The University of Glasgow is an associate member of CIVIS, a multicultural and multilingual European Civic University formed by the alliance of leading higher education institutions across Europe. The CIVIS alliance is one of the 60 Flagship European Universities and is funded by the EU through the European Universities initiative under the ERASMUS+ programme. It brings together 11 research-led and civically engaged universities across Europe.
We are also a founding member of Universitas 21, established in 1997 as a global network of 29 leading research-led universities for the 21st century. This allows us to follow education projects larger than any one university could manage alone and offer a framework for international collaboration.
The University of Glasgow and the University of Sydney have strengthened their ongoing relationship by signing a new MoU in Glasgow to renew and reaffirm their collaborations across research and education.
We also have a long standing partnership with the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, spanning both research and training.
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Our network activities with Universitas 21 and CIVIS are focused on collective efforts in support of the SDGs.
Civic engagement
The Health Innovation & Transformation Partnership, a groundbreaking collaboration between the NHS and academic and industry partners, has been extended for another three years. Set up in 2022, the partnership is a collaboration between NHS Golden Jubilee’s national Centre for Sustainable Delivery, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, University of Glasgow, AstraZeneca UK and Lenus Health.
The aim is to create transformation in NHS Scotland within both scheduled and unscheduled care through large scale programmes to improve the health of the population and by expanding clinical research.
Interventions will use a variety of novel approaches and technologies focusing upon wide-ranging points in the patient journey and pathways of care and will span early upstream detection, diagnosis and risk-stratification through to chronic disease management.
Scotland’s new strategy to support refugees and people seeking asylum with settling into their community was celebrated with an event at the University in August this year.
The New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy: Delivery Plan 2024-2026 – which is the most comprehensive of its kind worldwide – seeks to ensure people understand their rights, responsibilities and entitlements, and to help new Scots and communities to integrate.
Developed by the Scottish Government, Scottish Refugee Council and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the plan includes commitments to work with employers to help them recruit refugees, to identify ways to improve English language provision and to ensure services are co-ordinated effectively.
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Find out about our progress towards the 17 SDGs:
