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Your involvement counts – share details of BU’s social, community and cultural events for the annual Higher Education Business & Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey

BU has to report on a range of knowledge exchange activities for HE-BCI, which is collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

It is crucial we provide as full a picture as possible of these activities as Research England uses the HE-BCI data to help allocate the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) each year.

For 2024-25, BU received £549,064.

The SharePoint site collects details about all the social, community and cultural engagement events BU delivers between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025.

Information about all events delivered during this period need to be uploaded by Friday 17 October 2025.

This year, for the first time, we will not be able to include information uploaded to the public engagement records on BRIAN as these do not provide all the data HESA requires.

If you have added data to BRIAN for the relevant time period, please also upload full details here or we will not be able to include your event in the survey.

For more guidance on what you must include, please refer to the FAQ section. 

If you have any questions about the data collection, please contact publicengagement@bournemouth.ac.uk.