PASCAL welcomes Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, as the newest addition to PASCAL International Exchanges with a stimulus paper written by Dr Chadzemula Molebatsi from the University of Botswana. Gaborone becomes the fourth African city in the PIE exchanges joining Dar es Salaam, Kampala, and Dakar. It is expected that a further stimulus paper for Addis Ababa will be added shortly.

A U21 workshop on lifelong learning and research was held at Glasgow on May 14 and 15, 2012. Organised jointly by CR&DALL at the University of Glasgow and by the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the event offered the opportunity for 'blue-sky thinking' with regard to the engagement role of universities.