Create digital badges and learning pathways
Help learners articulate the skills, knowledge and experience they develop through your activities.
Cities of Learning
Cities of Learning
Together, we put learning on the map.
About Cities of Learning
It's a programme that helps cities and regions design and deliver inclusive lifelong learning.
The aim of the programme is to transform the potential of each participating city and region's learning ecosystem.
This will help build the skills needed for its people, employers and community to thrive.
Cities of Learning works with employers, educators, policy makers and learners to agree shared learning priorities for their town, city or region and to recognise those skills through digital badges.
Who we work with
We, at the RSA, manage the Cities of Learning programme.
Delivery Partners
We deliver the programme in partnership with Badge Nation, Future Creators, Navigatr and Real Ideas. Between us, we:
- provide solutions for organisations, networks and place-based leaders to enhance learning opportunities
- bring expertise in strategy, research, digital badging and platform development.
This model builds on the work of other leading global initiatives such as LRNG in the USA and UNESCO Learning Cities.
Funding Partners
The RSA is extremely grateful to our funding partners who generously support this work. Their funding and practical support helps us to provide the practices and training needed to enable cities and regions in the UK to reach their full potential.
Current funders include: Ufi Voctech Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation.
Ways to get involved
Learn about the various ways you can partner with or support Cities of Learning:
Join our place-based learning network
Join our network to share and celebrate insights from learning practitioners across the UK and the globe.
Build a place-based programme
Get access to support so you can take an active role in shaping the learning ecosystem in your city or region.
Fund Cities of Learning
Boost the UK’s learning and development ecosystem by funding Cities of Learning.
Ways we can help
Learning organisations
Make your offer more discoverable, measurable, inclusive and relevant to today’s learners.
We can support you to:
- add value to your skills offer
- measure the impact of your programme or demonstrate compliance
- make your programme more visible to learners
- help your students better articulate what they have learned with you.
Employers
Are you in a Cities of Learning location? If so, get support to discover work-ready talent that fits your company needs and culture.
We can support you to:
- connect with the right talent for your business
- enhance your recruitment process and support diversity and inclusivity
- enhance your training and development offer through badging
- address skills gaps through responsive learning.
Place-based leaders
Improve the economic, social and individual wellbeing of your borough, town, city or region.
We can support you to:
- increase access to learning for all
- prepare specific groups for work
- address skills gaps or diversity issues
- encourage a sense of place, identity, and ambition.
Cities of Learning locations
Learn about the cities and regions already running our Leadership Programme:
Learn, unlearn, relearn
As economic, climate and societal challenges loom large on our horizon, there is a growing and legitimate interest in what skills the UK economy and society might need in the coming decades.
