Part one offers insights and guidance for setting up collaborations, maintaining them, and reaping the rewards.
Chapters 1 and 2 identify the drivers and barriers that encourage, promote or hinder collaboration, seen from the perspective of both the university and the city.
Chapter 3 presents a typology of university-city collaboration models that can be found in Europe, ranging from very strategic frameworks to models for more specific purposes.
Chapters 4, 5 and 6 provide practical guidance for starting up a collaboration (chapter 4), consolidating it (chapter 5) and valorising the results (chapter 6).
Part two of the handbook contains extensive case studies from Ghent, Lausanne, Trondheim and Turku, originating from a series of online workshops.
Part three contains a rich collection of shorter case studies of city-university collaboration; each case ends with key takeaways and lessons learned. Evidently, each city and country is different in terms of history, culture and policy context, with deep implications for the way cities and universities can best frame their partnership. Probably, there are no one-size-fits-all ‘winning’ strategies. Hence, this handbook must be read as a source of inspiration for local initiators of strategic collaboration rather than as a source of ready-made solutions.
You can download the handbook by following this link: Handbook
About the Handbook: Willem van Winden / +31 (0) 641427013 / w.van.winden@urbaniq.nl
About EUniverCities: EUniverCities Secretariat / eunivercities@exeter.ac.uk