Birmingham Regional Co-Production Practitioners' Network

Governance International, The University of Birmingham, and the new economic foundation are hosting a regional meeting of the Co-production Practitioners Network on Thursday, 14 July from 9.30-12.30 PM. At this event you will be able to meet other people who are working on co-production issues and to discuss how you can support each other in rolling out co-production. nef facilitates a national network of co-production practitioners, with NESTA support – see the online forum: www.coproductionnetwork.com . At the recent Birmingham co-production event, co-hosted by Governance International, the University of Birmingham, nef and NESTA, there was a lot of interest in more face to face meetings and developing the links that people were making. Off the back of this event, we now want to explore what a more local network of practitioners, local authority partners, and user-led organisations, might look like. We hope that a local forum for sharing co-production experience and ideas will prove useful for many of you. In order to co-produce the formation of this West Midlands network, this initial half-day event will allow us to meet up, discuss what we want to get out of the network and get a sense of the different assets that people will bring to the network: time, including facilitation skills, a venue to hold events, ideas for an open space workshop, and so on. The network meeting will take place in Priorsfield, one of the University of Birmingham's historic training centres on Edgbaston Park Road, on the edge of the University campus. (Click to see map). If you are interested in attending this event, please email: Julia.Slay@neweconomics.org