Chicago
The University of Birmingham and the city have been honoured in the United States, for increasing international collaboration and promoting the many initiatives associated with being a sister city. During March, some 35 staff from Birmingham participated in events in Chicago - including workshops, visits to local businesses and universities. The Mayor and the members of the City of Chicago City Council honoured Birmingham, following the series of events, visits and projects that the University initiated this month, by passing a resolution praising the University for its engagement activities in Chicago. The Birmingham / Chicago relationship originates from September 1993. Based on "second city" principles, its original aim was to promote business connections between middle England and the mid-West of America. Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, visited Chicago to meet with leaders of academic and cultural institutions in Chicago, and to promote UK-US relationships developed through the Marshall Scholarship Programme, a British government-funded scholarship which annually awards leading American graduates the opportunity to undertake post-graduate study in the United Kingdom. Professor Eastwood comments: "The issues we face today are too important, too complex and too urgent to be solved by nation states, acting alone.
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