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Visual harvest of EcCoWell Seminar

One of the interesting innovations adopted at the Cork Seminar on EcCoWell was to commission a firm called Think Visual to produce a set of 'cartoon like' images with key ideas from the seminar as a "visual harvest".

These were done quickly during the presentation and then presented on the screen at the conclusion of the seminar. 

The visual images are attached.  We found this a usual way of encapsulating the key points from the discussios and you will see that 10 tips I gave were summed up also.

Collective Impact: Let's Hear Some Discussion for a Change!

I've hardly ever seen anyone make a comment on the PASCAL website.  I find this disheartening -- and I implicate myself (although I've replied a couple of times).  When an organization exists to stimulate "community engagement" but ends up being chockfull of folks who DO NOT engage with each other it is time to see some provocation.  

Consider yourself provoked!  

Last Call for Student Videos - 'The World We Imagine'

This is a very exciting opportunity for higher education students around the world to voice their visions on transformative knowledge in higher education.  The videos will be presented at the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi)  6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, which will take place in 13-15 May 2013,  and will be featured on our Website (www.guninetwork.org). Furthermore, a synthesis of all contributions will be published in our upcoming report “Higher Education in the World 5”.

Formal Launch of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

I was delighted to have been invited to the Formal Launch of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education at the University of Victoria on 4 March. This event took place in the Ceremonial Hall of First People's House at the University of Victoria.

The UVic Community Mapping Collaboratory

Subscribers may be interested the Community Mapping Collaboratory (CMC), which continues to grow and build community mapping and engagement initiatives within and between the community and the University of Victoria campus in Canada.

Civil Society @ Crossroads - Shifts, Challenges, Options?

What are the roles, capacities, contributions and limitations of civil society? The report featured below and attached aims to answer some of these questions, and has been facilitiated through a co-operation between PSO in the Netherlands, EASUN (Tanzania), CDRA (South Africa), PRIA (India), ICD (Uruguay) and INTRAC (UK).

The BBC yet again presents a right wing think-tank’s work as objective research

So says Open Democracy reader Mel Kelly on a report featured on BBC News Scotland

She goes further:

It looks like a public body. It sounds like a public body. But Scotland's Commission on School Reform is the child of a privately-funded right wing think-tank. Why does the BBC play along?

Invitation for Grassroots Innovation Awards and Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards, India

Invitation to the Seventh National Grassroots Innovation Awards of National Innovation Foundation-India, March 7, 2013.

Impact of PURE in the Helsinki Metropolitan Region - a reflection from Ilpo Laitinen

PASCAL Universities' Regional Engagment programme (PURE) has been a highly visible project in the Helsinki metropolitan region. It belonged to the official research strategy and programme of the city of Helsinki from 2011-2015.

NIU welcomes Hugo Gutierrez as its Resident Scholar in community engagement

The Center for Governmental Studies of Northern Illinois University (NIU) has welcomed its resident scholar in a fledgling program that promotes community engagement in sustainable regional development through a cohort of international researchers.  Hugo Gutierrez, serves as head of Social Programs in the Social Development and Citizenship Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.  He is co-founder of Mexico Rural and Mexico Urbano community outreach programs. 

 

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