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Universities' Third Mission

New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We are pleased to announce that the programme for the 17th PASCAL conference, New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Changing Contexts, is now available, and attached to this posting. The conference runs from 4-6 July in Taipei.

Submission Deadline for Abstracts (details also attached): 4 March 2024;

PUMR Briefing Paper 2

PUMR BP2This paper provides a detailed statement for participants in PUMR of:

  • What the PUMR programme is intended to achieve;
  • The methods to be followed;
  • The proposed workplan for taking the project forward.

The paper clarifies the respective roles of participating universities on the one hand and of PASCAL on the other and sets out the anticipated outcomes and deliverables.

Decolonizing Higher Education in Canada and Beyond

We hope that PASCAL subscribers will find the attached report of interest. It builds on work that Rajesh, Lorna Wanots’sa7 Williams, Maeva Gauthier and I did at the  World Higher Education Conference in Barcelona in 2022 through the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education.

European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems

To get a sense of the European Commission’s perspective on the contribution of HEI’s to developing regional innovations systems, the attached report on ‘European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems’, may be enlightening. At the University of Glasgow, we are part of one of the Alliances, CIVIS, and I am grateful to colleagues in the that alliance for making me aware of this report, and supplying the summary below:

Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme

Our close friends and colleagues, Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall oversee the Knowledge for Change Mentor Training Programme (MTP) in Community-based research.  This programme offers learning opportunities for university and community knowledge workers to take a 21-week course in teaching Community Based Research, and has been operating for five years.

Talloires Network Newsletter - June 2022

It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2022 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship, now in its thirteenth edition. The secretariat received impressive nominations from member institutions around the world. I offer my gratitude to the program leaders and students who are implementing the Talloires Network’s values for higher education in collaboration with their local communities.

CommUniversity Workshop on Reciprocal Partnerships

May 11 2022 06:01
Australia/Sydney
*** ONLINE WEBINAR ***
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Ultimo
Australia  Australia

In partnership with the Open Society University Network (OSUN), the Talloires Network (TN) has organized a series of 2-hour, online workshops to support engaged scholars who have an interest in community-university research. Workshops will be led by leaders in the field of university civic engagement around the world and held each month from February 2022 through July 2022.

University Third Mission & Local Responsibility

I would like to share with subscribers to PASCAL our reflections from the University of Catania on University Third Mission and Local Responsibility. Our paper was recently published on both the Global and the Africa editions of University World News at this link. We welcome your comments.

From the aricle...

Towards Citizens Enablement | PASCAL PUMR programme has been refocused, extended and retitled

The powerful and progressive PASCAL PUMR programme has been refocused, extended, and retitled, as Citizens Enablement, following comprehensive discussions with the Leonardo Ambassadors for Corporate Learning; they believe the new title simply portrays the best that the development has to offer society, especially after COVID-19. The essence of the honed approach is still that academics can, and should, enable/empower citizens to achieve their desired aspirations, both by, and for, themselves.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - December 2020

The Talloires Network of Engaged Universities is a global coalition of institutions collaborating with communities and partners to confront societal challenges such as disease, famine, structural racism, gender oppression, economic inequality, and climate change. We support university civic engagement in all its forms including community-based research, applied research, service-learning, extension, volunteerism, public service, policymaking, political activism, and social entrepreneurship. Though 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us, we are constantly invigorated by our members who are taking action, providing opportunity, and offering hope.

 

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