Tony Cooke, from Leeds City Council attended the City Science Initiative seminar in Milan In September a small team from Leeds City Council and the University of Leeds travelled to Milan to talk with European colleagues and give a presentation at a conference on how cities, universities and research institutions can work together to improve the places we live. The event was part of the City Science Initiative , launched by the city of Amsterdam in 2019. This is a transnationa

This November, Leeds will be holding a two-week celebration of languages, cultures and global connections. The Leeds City of Languages festival will run between 10th - 24th November 2025 and follows on from the the success of Leeds Language Week in November 2024, where hundreds of people tried a new language for the first time in a University of Leeds initiative to celebrate the city’s linguistic diversity and promote language learning.  It proved so popular, that the festiv

Image caption: At Spilberk Castle with the flags of Brno and Leeds! From left to right: David Hopes, Zbyněk Solc, Beata Zapletalová (Foreign Relations, Brno Municipality), Fran Coard (Creative Health, University of Leeds) Last month, our Czech twin city Brno hosted the prestigious Eurocities Culture Forum , where 147 participants from 61 cities and 21 European countries came together to reflect on how culture reshapes cities physically, socially and imaginatively, by turning