What does collaboration offer?

Glasgow Edinburgh collaboration offers;

• thought leadership: building the evidence base by undertaking and pooling research and gathering intelligence; stimulating and supporting partners and stakeholders to develop new ideas and innovative delivery models

• a broker/facilitator role: working in partnership with others and helping bring the right people together to discuss opportunities and issues and achieve agreed objectives

• a role of influencer and catalyst for change: where gaps exist in the activities of other agencies, or there is no obvious convening or organising body for an agreed course of action, GECI can take a lead role in developing new projects and ideas

The Collaboration Initiative will only support activity which genuinely adds value. Collaboration activity should meet the following criteria:

• additionality (where collaboration helps achieve objectives that either city alone could not achieve alone)
• appropriateness (where actions are most appropriate to a city/ urban focus)
• deliverability (realistic and achievable given the resource and timescale available)
• innovative and far sighted

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