University and High Life Highland agree to work more closely together
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The “minute of agreement” will expand on already existing collaborations and includes work areas of health and wellbeing as well as museums and archives.
Under the agreement future plans could see High Life Highland (HLH) sports staff working directly with students studying sports coaching, or libraries staff working to develop the use of special book collections and promote their potential for teaching.
To kick off the latest agreement Inverness College UHI agreed to host the 2017 Youth Parliament Conference which took place in the city recently.
Highland youth convener Calum Maclennan said: “Both the university and HLH are increasingly proactive in terms of the way they work with young people, so it seemed fitting that the Youth Parliament Conference, with around 100 young people from around the Highlands, was the event used to formally announce the partnership between the organisations.”
Neil Simco, acting vice-principal (research) at the UHI, said: “It makes great sense for our two cross-regional organisations to work together for the good of our communities.
“There are many existing projects we have already gathered under this agreement in fields such as health, history, heritage and culture.
“We’re looking forward to developing new opportunities with HLH for our students and staff and the wider community.”
Ian Murray, chief executive at HLH added: “We are very pleased to formalise our already productive relationship with UHI.
“I think HLH has a lot to offer various UHI partnership strands of study in colleges throughout the Highlands, and having an academic partner to assist in research benefits our work immensely.
“The newly signed minute of agreement means that we have a formalised arrangement in place that I hope will help both HLH and the university build upon the memorandum of understanding.
“It adds further weight to our joint commitment to expand areas of study and to pursue practical projects which can benefit the area.”
