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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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PIMA Bulletin 22

Posted February 11, 2019 - 09:57

The PIMA Bulletin Number 22 for January 2019 can now be read in full below.

The crisis in Western democracy was an early attempt in PASCAL via the OTB (thinking outside the box) Observatory website facility, to promote discussion of the way that assaults on democracy (not only ‘western’) might be confronted. What is the response that lifelong learning (LLL) and its encompassing moral and political values might have to offer in reviving active democratic practice?

The City of Melton Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT)

Posted February 11, 2019 - 08:57

The Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT) is designed to measure how well partnerships deliver on Project or Learning City activities in order to assess Collective Impact.

PASCAL - EMA join forces in Östersund, Sweden to explore the relationship between culture, heritage, museums and the wider engagement with new groups

Posted February 9, 2019 - 13:22

The Spring conference of the European Museum Academy (EMA) took place at the JAMTLI Foundation, Östersund, Sweden from 6-8 February 2019.

The conference also hosted the Kenneth Hudson Seminar, a joint PASCAL - EMA initiative. The theme of the seminar was on cultural policy and literacy development and represent a follow on from an earlier seminar held in Aarhus, Denmark in September 2018.

The Senior Citizens Heritage Learning Initiative

Posted February 8, 2019 - 12:24

Museums are traditionally characterised by their way of working and not by their purpose. The public are not surprised that museums in general collect, preserve and display traces of art and history. The way museums produce is however not the same as the aim or purpose of museums. The role of museums in their community - local, national or even global - may differ but the museums way of working somehow supports or stimulate the aims and as always easiest to understand on some years distance. 

APPLY NOW: Capacity Development Acceleration Fund for Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods - deadline 31 March, 2019

Posted February 3, 2019 - 09:11

Are you interested an early career research interested in learning more about sustainable cities and neighbourhoods?

The GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is pleased to launch a new fund, which aims to strengthen capacity of early career researchers to understand and address global challenges in fast-growing cities in developing countries.

 

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