The University is one of the anchor institutions in the City of Liverpool and the Faculty of Science and Engineering hosts many of the universities. Most important innovation assets. These are this includes, for example, the Materials Innovation Factory, the digital innovation Facility, the Virtual Engineering Center, the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy.

More importantly, perhaps we have world class academic staff right across the faculty. You contribute their expertise to solving problems of societal importance. The faculty has identified six key areas where we can contribute to the civic agenda. These areas are public engagement, where we liaise with local cultural organizations and schools, and do outreach public policy where we help develop and implement.

Public policy in the Liverpool City area and the local region.

We use our innovation assets to contribute and help translate our scientific discoveries into real technologies. We have a research theme on climate change where we want to understand the causes of climate change and, perhaps more importantly, to work with the local region in addressing some of those issues. Finding solutions, we work with local health partners on our health technologies agenda, so the local hospitals, Liverpool Health Partners and the NHS trusts.

To implement new technologies to to help with health issues. And finally we work with our undergraduates on their employability skills. 46% of our undergraduates stay in the Northwest after graduating and by working with them on their employability skills we can really make a difference to the economic situation in the region. It was a team of six of us who will work virtually from home throughout the whole project to develop.

An online optional module and it was focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN, so we had lots of different sections within the module. What was interesting about the module was using stuff that I'd already learned from my course and trying to put it into kind of real world examples. Real life. Basically, instead of just learning about it and doing research, actually trying to apply it to real life for us to be part of making the module. For that to be the focus.

Of the University of Liverpool becoming more sustainable and teaching all our students about it felt really important and it felt it was, you know, it was quite a lot. It felt like a very big responsibility, so it felt kind of an honor for them to trust us, to share what we think about sustainability with the student.

Covid has affected every aspect of our business. From research to education, however, we're looking for imaginative ways to help combating this. So, for example, in the early days of the kovid pandemic or School of Engineering, in collaboration with local industries, produced 3D printed about 15,000 visors for use in local NHS trusts.

Our staff, particularly in Earth and ocean scientists, have been very active and contributing to our Haseltine Institute to COVID-19 policy briefings. Looking at ways in which the local economy can recover from the covert pandemic.

And we've been helping the city draft it's industrial strategy post to post covid. Also, our ambition to create a city region that is globally competitive, environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive, is undiminished.

Because the strengths that we had pre pandemic remain with us now.

Before COVID-19 hit us, the city regions latest growth rate of 3.5%.

Was much higher than national levels.

A major part of the reason for that success is the strength of our universities.

As key anchor institutions for our city region playing a hugely important role in our internationally recognized strengths in areas such as material science, infectious Disease Control and high performance computer through their innovation and research through attracting investment into the area through bringing the best and the brightest to study in our city region to live here.

And through their work with local employers to drive up skills on a wider platform.

We will only succeed in building back better if we continue to work as a city region and the University of Liverpool in general and its Faculty of Science and Engineering will continue to be at the center of that work. Well, the faculty considered civic engagement to be an integral part of its mission. We're committed to using our world class facilities and staff to really make an impact in the local region, and in fact, in the northwest beyond.

We really want to make a difference in people's lives. That's the bottom line.