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Urban Mines, a team of environmental specialists committed to finding practical and innovative solutions for resource management, is broadening its activities internationally with the launch of a new partnership between business, the civic society and the public sector to tackle sustainability within schools across Europe. The aim is to explore in what ways working across sectors could add value, scale-up, build upon, and link together the various initiatives under way. Schools provide the focus for the initiative because they represent a 'microcosm' of the wider sustainability public policy debate, a major capital investment in their own right, an opportunity to educate young people and communities for sustainability, while offering something also local, tangible and immediate for children, families and local communities. The first meeting to scope out the work of the partnership was held  on London on 5 January 2010, chaired by Barry Sheerman, (MP, Chair UK Parliamentary Committee for Children’s Schools and Families and Chair of Urban Mines) and was attended by Urban Mines, the Partnering Initiative/International Business Leaders Forum , the Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation, the UK Sustainable Development Commission,  Policy Connect and business representatives from Interserve, Microsoft and Veolia Environmental Services. The initiative is seeking to promote the use of cross-sector partnerships to increase the contribution of schools to speed Europe’s transition to sustainability and a low carbon future. Further partners are welcome to join the initiative, especially those with knowledge and interests outside the UK.