Please find attached a final version of the programme for the Universitas 21 Lifelong Learning & Research Workshop at University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland on 14^th and 15th May 2012.

On 19 March, Scotland's Futures Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland organised on behalf of the Scottish Parliament an international workshop exploring the proposition that Scotland will be regarded as a world-leading learning nation by 2025. It included contributions from PASCAL associates Ilpo Laitinen and Anders Olsson by video-conference, as well as John Tibbitt and Mike Osborne at the host's venue, the Parliament building in Edinburgh.

Dear Colleagues,

We are in the process of putting together a publication that is part of a PASCAL book series concerned with universities and regional engagement to be published by the University of Manchester Press.  The series as a whole has already been approved by the publisher, and the first three books have been completed by the authors/editors.

A number of PASCAL colleagues have participated in one or more of the last three Higher Education Reform Workshops in Berlin (2011), Vancouver (2010), and/or Mexico City (2009). I would like to extend a special invitation for you to participate in the next HER Workshop which will be held for the first time in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh from 10-12 October 2012. We are delighted by the co-sponsorship by PASCAL of this event.

Paper.li, one of the leading companies producing on-line newspapers, has featured PASCAL's social media practice in the latest blog on their website.  Whilst many of the papers they produce are for individuals or for businesses, they were interested in PASCAL's use of the papers as an international organisation.