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ANUCES is an initiative involving four ANU Colleges (Arts and Social Sciences, Law, Business and Economics and Asia and the Pacific). It focuses the talents of hundreds of researchers, teachers and students working on Europe on a single site. Its purpose is to create synergies, promote interdisciplinary dialogue, and generate collaborative research projects at home and abroad.
The ANU Centre for European Studies takes over the role formerly played by the National Europe Centre. It is funded jointly by the ANU and the European Commission.
Cedefop’s mission is to support development of European VET policies and contribute to their implementation.
Cedefop’s strategic objective is to ‘strengthen European cooperation and support the European Commission, Member States and social partners in designing and implementing policies for an attractive VET that promotes excellence and social inclusion’.
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago has, since its inception in 1985 as a research and policy center, focused on a mission of improving the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities.
"We view community development as a profession that integrates knowledge from many disciplines with theory, research, teaching, and practice as important and interdependent functions that are vital in the public and private sectors. We believe the Society must be proactive by providing leadership to professionals and citizens across the spectrum of community development. In so doing, we believe the Society must be open and responsive to the needs of its members through provisions and services which enhance professional development."
Community Learning Champion (CLC) is the umbrella term for people who want to share their excitement about learning with friends, neighbours, workmates and people right across their communities. CLCs are often volunteers and are in a unique position to enthuse and inspire others. When they are given the resources to flex their creative talents, backed by effective support and training, lives and communities are changed for the better. The achievements of the CLC National Support Programme speak for themselves: more people getting involved in learning, more parents raising their sights and those of their children, more people shaking off the damaging effects of depression and drug abuse, more people getting into work and more people getting involved in making their community a better place.
The Engagement Academy for University Leaders has been offered by Virginia Tech's Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement since 2008 and has won awards for its innovation and quality. The unique, executive leadership portfolio is designed for administrators in post-secondary institutions that are committed to engaged scholarship, campus-community partnerships and to building institutional capacity for community engagement.
In the field of education and training the mission of the European Commission is to reinforce and promote lifelong learning.
The Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research was created by representatives of universities, networks and civil society organizations at the May 2008 Community University Expo Conference in Victoria, BC, Canada, hosted by the University of Victoria.
The International Development Research Corporation of Canada funded a specific Global Networking meeting on May 5th 2008 at which representatives of 14 countries throughout the world developed a Declaration of The Global Alliance (see below), which was then endorsed by many of the 600 delegates at the conference. The meeting was an opportunity to examine how the strengths of various existing networks could be best advanced for the common global purpose of using knowledge and community-university partnership strategies for democratic social and environmental change and justice, particularly among the most vulnerable people and places of the world. An added purpose was to see how the voice of majority world researchers and activists can be prominent in the emerging global networks.
All of this is with the aim of strengthening the capacity of grass roots organizations to make a difference in the pressing and complex issues of poverty, violence, climate change, injustice, and health throughout the world.
The Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) was created in 1999 by UNESCO, the United Nations University (UNU) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) after UNESCO's World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) in 1998, to give continuity to and facilitate the implementation of its main decisions. Ten years later in 2009, GUNI played a significant role in the second WCHE, following its mandate to further reflection and action frameworks to facilitate the exchange of value between higher education and society globally.
The Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) builds the capacity of community leaders and policymakers by providing technical support, applied research, policy evaluation, and training across the state. IIRA is a clearinghouse for information on rural issues, coordinates rural research, and works with state agencies on issues of importance to rural communities.
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