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Our campus in Stratford has been designed for collaboration. We connect with partners and residents directly and through East Bank, the new cultural and educational district, of which we are a founding partner.
As London's Global University, we build on our existing ambition and strategy to make a far-reaching economic, health, environmental, cultural and social contribution to our home city. Our work at UCL East is in line with our UCL wide strategy and activities.
Find out about some of our past and existing projects and how to engage with us. Whether you would like your business, school or organisation to partner with us, create art on a joint project, or attend one of our Saturday Clubs for teenagers, we invite to explore our pages below for ways to engage.
If you are a UCL academic and/or researcher, find out how to get involved in existing collaborative projects, and get support and training for developing new projects.
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Building on our existing London strategy, we are expanding our involvement and reach in east London. Creating new opportunities for our local communities, residents and partners.
UCL East Engagement Awards 2024
Celebrating staff, students, partners, and projects that have exemplified high-quality, meaningful and mutually beneficial engagement between UCL and our local east London communities.
UCL East Engagement Report 2020-21 (PDF)
UCL was already very active in east London ahead of the new campus opening. This report gives an insight into our activities and collaborations with local communities pre-2022.
East Bank: world-class culture and education
As a founding partner of the new cultural and educational district East Bank, we help to create positive experiences for locals including free events like Get Together over the summer.
The UCL East Community Board
The board brings community expertise into UCL to ensure that the ways we work in our spaces and in our local communities is collaborative, mutually beneficial. It also enables us to tackle challenges from different perspectives.
Gaia globe and public programme
Gaia is a permanent artwork in the atrium at UCL East Marshgate. The impressive globe is the inspiration for a public programme of events centered around our place on this planet, and our collective need to protect it.
UCL and DeepMind: improving representation in AI education
Global artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind is working with UCL to open up scholarships to under-represented students.
Having grown up a mile from here, it’s incredible to see what Stratford has become today. Stratford is the place to be. It’s the place for collaboration, for learning, for addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges. What I love about UCL being in East London is that it has incredible power to inspire and hold our communities together.
Christine Ohuruogu MBE
Olympic, World and Commonwealth 400m champion
UCL alumna and former UCL Council member
What's new at UCL East
Find out more about our latest activities and opportunities to get involved, check our news and events.
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