The Ignite programme, designed and delivered by the university’s Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP), will be funded for three years through the IAA project. Since 2003, CUPP has nurtured and expanded over 200 community-university partnerships and received multiple awards including a Times Higher Education award, the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship, and the University Association for Lifelong Learning Award; an upcoming, ambitious Public and Community Engagement Strategic Plan will outline how the university will build on this success.
One example of an impactful CUPP initiative put inclusive arts research into action through a project working with local learning-disabled artists at the Rocket Artists’ Studios. This then provided a model that has been adapted for other sites and communities across the world – from elsewhere in the UK to seven countries in east and south-east Asia.
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