On the face of it, involvement with the dissemination of a leading-edge computer science project would seem to be outside of PASCAL's remit.  What have "semantic search" and "natural languague processing" got to do with the social sciences? This is exactly the question we asked ourselves when invited by our colleagues from the Puglia Region to get involved in the Natural Browsing project.

The next Knowledge Exchange of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK will open from the 1^st September 2011 until the 27^th October 2011. The ESRC will again be running two schemes, the Follow on Fund scheme and a Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme.

This call is aimed at social science researchers at all stages of their career and at organisations in the business, public and civil society sectors, with the intention of encouraging dialogue and collaboration between these groups. 

The latest PASCAL book, Heritage, Regional Development and Social Cohesion, edited by Peter Kearns, Sofia Kling and Christina Wistman has been published.

It is an outcome of the 8th International PASCAL Observatory Conference in Östersund, Sweden, which was organised jointly by the Jämtland County Museum, Jamtli, and The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning, NCK.

The Public Policy and Management Institute (PPMI)  of Vilnius, Lithuania has presented the interim evaluation of the 2007-2009 Lifelong Learning Programme commissioned by DG Education and Culture in the European Commission. 

This is a project funded by the European Commission led by a consortium headed by CHEPS in the Netherlands. It is concerned with field-based ranking of HEIs.

According to the project's website: