The School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow proudly hosted a two-week long capacity strengthening workshop in the Adam Smith Building as part of the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) from 27 August to 5 September 2018

We are pleased to announce that we have received support for a project entitled Building research collaboration with India and Kyrgyzstan to explore the role of universities in developing skills for smart cities.

We ae delighted to welcome Professor Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah to the PASCAL Board. Vonu is a world-renowned expert on sustainable, socially just transport, and on the use of information, especially big data, to solve urban problems. PASCAL can benefit from Vonu's international experience at the cutting edge of research with immediate practical and policy relevance.

The University of Glasgow is delighted to announce two funded PhD studentships have been awarded.  Preeti Dagar, currently an International Masters in Adult Educaiton for Social Change (AESC) second year student has been awarded a 3-year studentship by the university with the ESRC GCRF Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities. She will be supervised by Mike Osborne.

I’m delighted to report following my attendance and keynote presentation at the conference “Education for Values: Continuity and Context” in Moldova on April 27-28, 2018, PASCAL has been able to re-inforce its co-operation with DVV whose offices in Eastern Europe were represented strongly. This week I met Oleg Smirnov, Director, Representative office DVV International in Ukraine to discuss further co-operation during his visit to Scotland.