About
We put current and future generations at the heart of everything we do. It’s what we call our civic mission.
Civic Mission embodies the ways we help to boost the health, wealth and wellbeing of Cardiff, Wales and the wider world, including our role to promote environmental sustainability, diversity, and the Welsh language and culture.
Public engagement builds on the strong foundations laid by our place-based work in civic mission. We support those who will benefit from our research, knowledge and teaching.
We work with our staff, students, members of the public, and industry to shape, deliver and share our work nationally and globally to open dialogue and generate mutual benefit. Learn how public engagement benefits our diverse communities.
Our aim is to be recognised locally, nationally and internationally for our collaborative and inclusive civic mission and public engagement practice.
Responding to challenges that are globally connected but locally experienced
We've been responding to major societal challenges and undertaking work for the public good for well over 140 years – from providing support to refugees fleeing war and conflict, and challenging state-sponsored Apartheid in South Africa, to helping communities recover and rebuild following the social and health crisis of coronavirus.
Becoming a Global-Civic university
Civic mission and public engagement are at the heart of Cardiff University’s Our future, together strategy, which commits to becoming a great “global-civic university, grounded in our people, our city-region, and open to the world.”
Being a Global-civic university means co-creating cultural, economic, environmental, and social value, in Cardiff, Wales, UK and the world, for current and future generations, through everything that we do.
Future Generations Thinking
The next phase of our civic mission and public engagement activity will make a more explicit contribution to Wales through support of the Well-being of Future Generations Act.
We will do this by aligning our activities to the Future Generations Commissioner’s Cymru Can strategy, which sets out several priority areas crucial to achieving meaningful impact for current and future generations.
