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Engagement Committee of Future Earth - Members sought - Deadline 14 March

Posted March 10, 2014 - 12:04 by Heather Peirce

Members are sought for the inaugural Engagement Committee of Future Earth, the global research platform providing the knowledge to accelerate our transformations to a sustainable world. Future Earth is a 10-year international research programme that will mobilise multi-disciplinary expertise, stakeholders and resources to ensure that scientific knowledge makes a larger contribution to societal debate and decision-making for sustainable development.

Making Engagement Relevant in Higher Education

Posted March 10, 2014 - 08:32 by Rajesh Tandon

“We listen to public, and they have a say in setting the research agenda. After all, universities undertake research with public funds; they must be accountable to the public”. Such were the sentiments expressed during three dialogues on ‘strengthening community engagement in higher education in India’ during March 3-7, 2014.

Invitation to Symposium on Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions

Posted March 5, 2014 - 05:41 by Jean Preece

Following the publication of the UNESCO Beijing Declaration on Learning Cities adopted in October 2013, the Swansea Bay City Region, the pilot UNESCO Learning City for the UK, seeks to keep up the momentum generated at that conference. Swansea University have are hosting a symposium on The Entrepreneurial Learning City Region.

Brittany/Cornwall: What relations?

Posted February 28, 2014 - 10:31 by Jean-Marie Filloque

The Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (CRBC’s) first Rencontres Bretagne-Monde Anglophone in 2012 marked the beginning of a series of biennial conferences that will continue until 2020.

Nextwork European Project Forum 2014

Posted February 28, 2014 - 10:15 by Ettore Ruggiero

Nextwork is an important event aimed at developing international relations with the various protagonists of the EU grant-funded projects (academic and educational Institutions, Universities, companies, Public Authorities, associations and research centres).

Child Sensitive Social Policies International Conference 2014 Harare, Zimbabwe

Posted February 26, 2014 - 08:56 by Muir Houston

The Department of Child Sensitive Social Policies at the Women’s University in Africa in collaboration with UNICEF Zimbabwe hosted the inaugural Child Sensitive Social Policies Conference. The main conference theme ‘Towards a Child Sensitive Society on Africa’ sought to explore the centrality of children in African contexts.

Time for a renewed focus on Planetary Survival?

Posted February 26, 2014 - 07:06 by Budd Hall

A Canadian Government Environmental study of the effects of tailing ponds, a by-product of Canadian Tar Sands oil production shows that an un-Godly mixture of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are leaching into the ground water and finding their way to the Athabasca river, a major waterway in northern Alberta.

Strategic Doing: Developing & Implementing Strategy within Loose Regional Networks

Posted February 24, 2014 - 21:43 by Paul Crawford

Designing and implementing regional development strategies poses serious challenges.  Part of the problem may be that the traditional approach to strategy, a linear process of strategic planning, is not well suited to the task.  

Education for All: IAU Workshop on HE and Education for All (HEEFA), Delhi, India.

Posted February 24, 2014 - 15:32 by Valtencir Mendes

Last week the International Association of Universities and the Lady Irwin College at the University of Delhi organised the workshop "A three-step activity to envision higher education for Education for All locally" (Feb 19-21, 2014).

A Catalyst for Regeneration

Posted February 21, 2014 - 03:15 by Jim Saleeba

The town of Bingara lies within the Shire of Gwydir in North Western New South Wales.

It faces problems similar to other parts of rural Australia: declining population with resultant lack of employment opportunities; withdrawal of services to provincial and even metropolitan cities; and a difficult future maintaining its viability.

 

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