Communities organize around many things but the most natural focus for collaboration is food. Food is not only life sustaining but provides seeds for local economic development. A community-based food-systems approach has the potential to simultaneously address issues of food security, public health, social justice, and ecological health in local communities and regions, as well as economic vitality of agriculture and rural communities.
Here is a draft of Perspectives from the "Big Tent" global dialogue on Community-University Research and Engagement to be held on October 17, 2011. This is the second global statement by the "Big Tent" group of international community university research and engagement networks and will be finalised following discussions that will be chaired from the University of Glasgow by Dr Rajesh Tandon of PRIA and Professor Michael Osborne of PASCAL amongst the networks.
We welcome comments from our subscribers in advance of the dialogue and thereafter.
The next larger gathering of the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research will take place within the 5th Living Knowledge Conference May 10-12-Bonn, Germany.
Re-imagining Research Relationships Co-creating Knowledge in a Democratic Society
In the modern knowledge societies universities play an increasingly more important role in achieving economic growth and social progress. Their traditional roles of teaching and research are being broadened to include activities of Third Mission that facilitate their engagement with society and industry. While universities’ teaching and research roles are well understood and measured, Third Mission is yet to be better examined and approaches to its measurement developed.
The latest issue of the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (JACE 17.1) has just been published, and includes articles by PASCAL board members and associates.
Please find attached the small coordinator report Xploit Swansea Learning Experience.