PARTNERSHIPS

• Launching a local research, innovation and engagement data hub to track and assess local conditions and challenges that need alleviation or action, and to research and identify solutions. The hub will focus on sub-criteria of the Luton 2040 Vision to end poverty in Luton by 2040 and the goals of the Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care System Research & Innovation Hub based at the University to tackle health and social care inequalities.

• Collaborate strategically on future funding a working group will be established to consider how and when to respond collaboratively to funding calls. This will include ‘levelling-up’ funds that the Council will be able to access in the next few years and health research funds that the University of Bedfordshire could apply for, with the aim to partner as often as possible to maximise the impact of funding streams locally.