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.

The Italian Learning Cities Network has signed a protocol of common interest with the Association of Local Democracy Agencies.  ALDA was established in 1999 as an initiative of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities to coordinate and support a network of Local Democracy Agencies which was established in the early 1990s.

A new Briefing Paper, A Strategy for Green Skills has just been published and is available in multiple languages at the CEDEFOP site here. The English language version is attached.

Please consider the following volume:  The Indispensible University: Higher Education, economic Development and the Knowledge Economy (Eugene Trani and Robert Holsworth).

Per a review by Reynard Trea McMillian (Meharry Medical College, Tennessee, USA), "Trani and Holsworth begin the ... premise that colleges and universities are in the midst of a major transformation that will redefine relationships to the broader community."

Virginia Tech and TRE Networks preseng an executive leadership program for individuals, or teams of university and community leaders, responsible for regional economic development.  This program is scheduled for May 21-23, 2012 in Roanoke, Virginia (USA).  The curriculum will foster competency in leading regional transformation -- to achieve  long-term impacts targeted at the needs of both institutions and regions.