Glasgow-Edinburgh Collaboration

In addition to investing in collaboration with Glasgow, Edinburgh has recently announced renewed support for collaboration with partners in its surrounding region through the Edinburgh Inspiring Capital inititiative.

The bespoke brand, drawing on the area’s many strengths, is designed to encourage people to live, visit, invest and study in Edinburgh’s vibrant city region. Its vision is that by 2015, Edinburgh will be the most successful and sustainable city in northern Europe. Edinburgh has already been voted the UK’s top place to live.

Inspiring Capital neatly complements Glasgow’s successful brand: Glasgow: Scotland with Style, led by the city’s Marketing Bureau. The Bureau scooped a prestigious award for its brand campaign in 2007.

The City of Edinburgh Council’s budget for 2008/09 includes a £100,000 allocation for Glasgow-Edinburgh collaboration. Read more…

Glasgow City Council and Scottish Enterprise are also earmarking mainstream funding for the collaboration initiative now that the initial City Growth Fund allocation has come to an end.

Edinburgh’s budget

Glasgow plans to join an exclusive United Nations club for the world’s great musical cities.

A bid plan for the UNESCO award was announced on Monday 4 February by a Steering Committee which includes Lord Provost Bob Winter and 27 leading figures in the arts, academia, media and business.

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