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Meeting Todays Challenges for a Better World - topical coverage on Australian television

Posted March 21, 2017 - 09:44 by Denise Reghenza...

Some recent documentaries/investigative interviews on Australian television have particular relevance to the topics of interest to followers of the PASCAL LCN "Meeting Today's Challenges for a Better Future" network.

Upcoming Springer publication on Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions

Posted March 21, 2017 - 07:14 by Peter Kearns

The Springer publication on “Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions” is in final stages of editing and should be available soon. The book has been edited by Judith James and Jean Preece (Swansea) and Raul Valdes-Cotera (UIL) and so represents a nice example of PASCAL and UIL collaboration.

PIMA No 10 Newsletter February 2017

Posted March 4, 2017 - 09:34 by Chris Duke

Please find featured below and attached the No 10 PIMA Newsletter, for February 2017.

Global Engagement, Human Rights, and Cognitive Justice - Catherine Odora Hoppers

Posted February 26, 2017 - 13:41 by Pat Inman

PASCAL subscribers, particularly in the US, may be interested in a Keynote presentation that PASCAL Director, Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers in making at Michigan State University, East Lancing on 15 March at 1500 on the subject of Global Engagement, Human Rights, and Cognitive Justice.

Resiliency, citizen science and environmental justice

Posted February 7, 2017 - 19:13 by Pat Inman

It has been hard to find joy in the heated rhetoric of recent weeks.  What does provide great comfort is the amazing number of inspiring gatherings and projects emerging in response to the unreasonable rants.  

Re travel ban: University action in response to U.S. executive order

Posted January 31, 2017 - 09:56 by Hans Schuetze

There is world wide shock, protests and discussion about president Trump's entry ban for Muslims from some seven Middle East countries.

PIMA Newsletter No 9

Posted January 10, 2017 - 10:12 by Chris Duke

Please find featured below and attached the No 9 PIMA Newsletter, for December 2016.

Don't miss #learningcities weekly

Posted January 4, 2017 - 21:31 by John Tibbitt

Every Wednesday, PASCAL's weekly curated newspaper #learningcities week is published.

Greetings from the Chair

Posted December 20, 2016 - 09:30 by Josef Konvitz

The year 2016 gives one pause. The attacks of January 2015 in Paris were directed against free speech and religious tolerance; they failed: Charlie Hebdo sales are up, and opinion polls show that overwhelmingly, the French have positive views of Muslims, Jews and Europe. The attacks of November 2015 in Paris and July 2016 in Nice however succeeded in destablising through fear: people changed their daily routines or vacation plans. The elections in the UK and US are more difficult to characterize because this time, in the West, fantasy defeated fact, emotion triumphed over reason.

Vacancy announcement: Director, UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)

Posted December 16, 2016 - 10:19 by Arne Carlsen

UNESCO is calling for applications for the position of Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

 

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