New landmark institute to transform public policy thinking

A major gift from alumnus Peter Bennett has enabled launch of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, to find sustainable solutions to global problems.

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Our ideas and innovations have
shaped the world.
Our campaign,
'Dear World... Yours, Cambridge'
will raise £2 billion
to help us shape all our futures.

Yours, Cambridge

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Our ambition

For 800 years, the world has invested in Cambridge and Cambridge has delivered. We gave you gravity, evolution, computers and pulsars. Next we could deliver clean energy sources, longer lives, quantum computers and parallel universes. But first we need to ask more from the world.

Why Cambridge?

Our Dear World, Yours Cambridge campaign for the University and Colleges was launched in October 2015 and aims to raise £2bn for research, posts and facilities. The campaign total now stands at £1.08bn.

A Collegiate University

Cambridge is a unique community of 31 Colleges, and home to more than 18,000 students. The Colleges are the home of our signature supervision system, where students are mentored by some of the world’s leading thinkers. Our 9,000 staff are spread across six schools and more than 150 departments, faculties and institutes.

Focus on our aspirations

For eight centuries, Cambridge has welcomed brilliant minds, set them free to collaborate and create, sending world-changing ideas in return. But we can never say: 'our work is done'. Help us ensure that our impact on the future will be as vital as our impact on the past.

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Global talent to shape our global future: supporting graduate students

There are thousands of students out there who could make their mark on the world.

World-class teaching and mentoring: supporting undergraduate students

Teaching the next generation of leaders how to think, not what to think. Here, teaching is a two-way process, revolving around an exchange of thinking and understanding.

Anticipating and preventing disease

New approaches to the world's most debilitating health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

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Saving our planet's biodiversity, for the world

Creating transformational solutions to environmental challenges: a partnership between international nature conservation organisations and University researchers.

A Cambridge-Africa Programme workshop in Tanzania

Closing the research gap between Africa and the rest of the world

Supporting a new generation of outstanding researchers to create an African research culture.

Combining efforts to fight cardiovascular and respiratory diseases

Creating Europe's largest concentration of scientists and clinicians fighting chronic diseases.

Creative collaborations curing disease

As threats to health become more complex and interconnected, so too will the solutions we develop to combat them.

Energy: the next big discovery

Making possible a new generation of discoveries that provide affordable, clean energy for everyone on the planet for generations to come.

Gift announcements

Cambridge owes its world-leading excellence in research and teaching to the generosity of its supporters. Our history is synonymous with a history of far-sighted benefaction, and the same is as true today as it has ever been.

Gift announcement

Cambridge and Nokia Bell Labs establish new research centre to advance AI-supported multi-sensory personal devices

The long-sought dream of wearable and mobile devices that will interpret, replicate and influence people’s emotions and perceptions will soon be a reality thanks to a collaboration between the University and Nokia Bell Labs.

Gift announcement

New Cambridge institute to tackle policy challenges in our age of disruption

The Bennett Institute for Public Policy will address emerging global patterns of inequality and social unrest by offering a unique combination of deep research, high-level training and effective policy engagement.

Impact of giving

Philanthropic giving is at the heart of the success of the Collegiate University, enabling us to make discoveries that change the world and to ensure that our students receive an unrivalled education.

Philanthropic impact story

Philanthropy matters

How will philanthropy impact the University’s future?

Philanthropic impact story

Cambridge and the Philomathia Foundation launch second phase of innovative Social Sciences Research Programme

The second phase of the interdisciplinary Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme, a collaboration between the Philomathia Foundation and the University, has been launched to enable further pioneering work in addressing some of the major issues facing humanity today.

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