Our vision is of a higher education sector making a vital, strategic and valued contribution to 21st-century society through its public engagement activity.

Our mission is to support universities to increase the quality and impact of their public engagement activity.

Our three strategic aims are to:

Support excellent public engagement practice

• Provide people with the tools, training, resources and advice they need to engage or facilitate engagement within their organisation (e.g. CPD & training; our Engage Academy; our Engagement Resources base)
• Collect learning from our projects and beyond and sharing it widely (e.g. our publications and projects)
• Create networking opportunities to enhance learning opportunities (e.g. our Engage conference)

Create the conditions for public engagement to thrive in universities

• Consultancy to support universities in bringing about strategic change that embeds public engagement
• Products to help effect change (e.g. Manifesto for Public Engagement; EDGE tool; Engage Watermark)
• Identify, develop and disseminate evidence-informed practice (e.g. Research for All journal; publications)

Build strong networks and partnerships to amplify our impact

• Encourage partners to work with the higher education sector and to embed public engagement in their work (e.g. Museum University Partnership Initiative)
• Challenge those working in higher education to learn from engagement experts from outside higher education (e.g. the UK Community Partner Network)
• Inform, influence and interpret policy (e.g. our REF resources)

To learn more, please visit: National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement