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Responding to a call by the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, which is holding an inquiry entitled, ‘An Equal Recovery’, the Place-based Economics Recovery Network (PERN) academic steering group,… Politicians are fond of comparing the UK to Germany – usually as a model of how we could do something better. A recent example is Boris Johnson’s speech on levelling up from last month. “I remember going to former East Germany in 1990 just after the wall had gone down”, he said, “and I remember being amazed at how far behind west Germany it then was – a place of strange little cars with two stroke engines and fake coffee”. But then he adds, “to a large extent Germany has succeeded in levelling up where we have not”. You can view the latest YU Newsletter here, subscribe here. Yorkshire and Humber Councils and Yorkshire Universities have agreed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), providing a framework for a long-term, strategic partnership between local government and higher education in…PERN Academic Steering Group / Women in Economics joint submission to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee
Solidarity or spectacle – two paths to levelling up
Yorkshire Universities Newsletter 2020/21 Issue Two
Yorkshire and Humber Councils and Yorkshire Universities agree new Memorandum of Understanding
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There is still time to take part in the @YHClimateCom online consultation on the regional climate action plan!
We are putting together a regional climate action for Yorkshire and the Humber and we want your input for it.
We've set out our top 50 priorities - but are they yours? Take part in our online consultation (closes 24 Sept) and tell us what you think!
https://yorksandhumberclimate.org.uk/news/consultation-opens-first-climate-action-plan-yorkshire-and-humber
See the highlights and developments we picked for you this week: https://bit.ly/YUDigestW37 👀
Including 2! PERN @PlaceBasedEcon tender opportunities!
AND news of an audit of climate related research and knowledge base for @YHClimateCom
Get involved! https://bit.ly/YUREPaudit 📝
Thanks to friends from @N8research, @YorkshireUnis & @GW4Alliance for helping bring together a great group of people to talk about levelling up R&D, excellent chairing by @simon_green and a great provocation by @RichardALJones thanks to all who contributed #Collaboration
