The Birmingham Project employer partners

Birmingham City Football Club is a professional football club based in Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, it was renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943.

The University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Football Club (BCFC) have announced a strategic alliance, bringing together two of Birmingham’s most iconic institutions around a shared ambition for the city’s success. The alliance, which comes as the University and BCFC celebrate their 125th and 150th anniversaries, will create opportunities in research, education and health, raise aspirations across Birmingham, and enhance the city’s reputation on the global stage. 

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media companies creating and distributing every type of media today - print, video and film, digital, audio and social - widening our influence through technological innovation and by fully leveraging the global infrastructure we've built for over a century.

They are home to the most iconic brands in media including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Tatler, GQ, Glamour, Bon appétit and Allure.

Volkswagen Group UK represents one in every five new cars on UK roads, comprising of these core brands: Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, CUPRA, Škoda, and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

In addition, we are proud to be part of a wider family that includes iconic sister brands such as Ducati and Porsche.At the heart of our business is our people. We offer a range of entry pathways for ambitious individuals, including Undergraduate, Graduate, and Apprenticeship programmes, as well as entry-level roles. These opportunities span across diverse areas such as Marketing, Finance, Product Planning, and more. Empowering our people to grow and thrive across the organisation.

HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. Their global businesses serve around 39 million customers worldwide through a network that covers 62 countries and territories.

Their customers range from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies, governments and international organisations. HSBC aim to connect them to opportunities and help them to achieve their ambitions.

The products and services they offer vary widely according to customers’ needs. They provide individuals and families with mortgages that help them buy their own home, as well as savings accounts and wealth management products that help them plan for the future.

They offer businesses loans to invest in growth, and products such as foreign exchange and trade financing that enable international expansion. And for large companies and organisations operating across borders, HSBC offer tailored advice on decisions such as financing major projects, issuing debt or making acquisitions.

Siemens is a technology group that is active in nearly all countries of the world, focusing on the areas of automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries, intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, smart mobility solutions for rail transport, and medical technology and digital healthcare services.

Siemens Digital Industries (Software) have built a unique software portfolio that allows them to continue to grow their digital business. They focus on helping customers with the entire product lifecycle with everything from design, manufacturing and automation, to production and service of a product. It in order to effectively cover the entirety of a product’s lifecycle, software is needed with microelectronics, mechanical design, software, manufacturing, app development and IoT analytics capabilities. The data generated by the product in use or the factory in operation, from these imbedded features of a product’s ‘digital twin’, enables a continuous loop of optimisation - both for the product and the production.

TfWM works to invest in and improve the regional transport network; working towards an integrated transport system that is sustainable, secure, and supports economic growth. They are busy planning for the future and work in partnership with operators in the West Midlands (as Network West Midlands) to develop integrated ticketing that meets customer needs.

TfWM is part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). The WMCA has a number of key priorities, such as; economic growth, skills, transport and housing, as well as reforming public services and reducing the region's welfare bill. This year, TfWM will be joined by the HS2 Project. 

Find out more information about TfWM.

TfWM quote

"The Birmingham Project is an excellent way of understanding young people's vision to help shape the future of public transport. It supports students thinking about the way they can make changes for the better and it is a great opportunity to be able to work with such talented students."

Our final employer will be confirmed very soon.