Colleagues in the Learning City Networks may be interested in some of the specific work currently being undertaken by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at the University of Glasgow in the field of Education.

The objective of the event, the third in the PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 workshop series, was to bring about an awareness of the role and needs of local communities in relation to learning, and to seek smart solutions in which cities and other public organizations can play a greater role in response to those needs. The workshop was attended by some 80 people from a number of different counties. There were 18 presentations in the workshop including the keynote presentations. The attached document summarises some of the main issues from the workshop.

The Social Innovation Exchange, Collaborate and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK branch) pooled their talents, energies and resources to create spaces for people to make unlikely connections that can create “real social change” at the Unusual Suspects Festival in London.

We are pleased to share the results of the global survey on institutional structures to support Community University Research Partnerships, an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education.  The survey was conducted between January - March 2014, and administered globally through our national and global network partners.

We are proud to announce our contribution to the book: “African Health leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future" edited by Dr Francis Omaswa and Lord Nigel Crisp, published by the Oxford University Press (September 2014).