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The displays available here represent all site content categorised under PASCAL Expertise, PASCAL Projects and PASCAL Themes:

Some Strategies in Building Learning Communities and Regions

Peter Kearns and Denise Reghenzani Kearns have kindly written extensive notes on discussions that they had in Germany, Canada and Hong Kong during the period of June to September.  The discussions were focussed on mainly:

OECD Report on Higher Education Meetings - Paris, September 2010

IMHE Biennial Conference 13-15 September 2010 – Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly Doing More with Less

OECD Round Table on Higher Education in Regional and City Development 15-16 September 2010

Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement - Communiqué of September 23, 2010

Following a meeting in London of a group of international community and university networks representing several thousand universities, professional bodies and civil society organisations - the Centro Boliviano de Estudios Multidisciplinarios, Commonwealth Universities Extension and Engagement Network, Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research, Global Universities Network for Innovation, http://www.scie

Biodiversity and livelihood impacts of climate change - get involved!

Peter van Sluijs form Natureandpoverty.net has invited people active in the conservation and development community to share resources & collaborate online at its interactive platform. They suggest that interested people take a few minutes to visit their website: http://www.natureandpoverty.net.

One of their current focus themes is biodiversity and livelihood impacts of climate change: they invite you to become involved and share your experiences.

Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning ­ PRECOLL

This project being led by the University of Florence and various members of the European Association of Regional and Local Authorities for Lifelong Learning, including Pascal member, Jamtland County Council. The project is funded under the EC's LLL programme and has the core objective of improving the quality and effectiveness of Regional/Local LLL policies through trans-regional cooperation at European level allowing innovative policy practices to be learnt and transferred within different systems.

Towards a Global Knowledge Movement: Can Communities, Social Movements and Universities Learn a New Dance?

The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the discourses and trends in Higher Education Institutions expressed by such concepts such as engaged scholarship (Boyer, 2006), community-based research (Strand et al, 2003), community-university research partnerships (Hall, 2009, Hart et al 2007), community-university engagement (Watson, 2006), civic engagement (University of Victoria strategic plan), or knowledge mobilization and knowledge impact (Levesque, 2008)?  What are the driving forces behind or within these trends?

 

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