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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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Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda

Posted November 20, 2023 - 09:52

The Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda to connect regarding preliminary project findings and to conduct a high-level invited stakeholder meeting of gender practitioners, researchers, educators, industry managers and policymakers.

Future of Ageing 2023: Solutions for longer lives

Posted November 19, 2023 - 16:11

With just three weeks to go, we're looking forward to a solutions-focused Future of Ageing 2023, and we're delighted to announce the winners of our open slot competition who will be presenting a range of solutions for longer lives at the conference on Thursday 7 December.

How to Create a Welcoming Place | Placemaking Round-Up

Posted November 19, 2023 - 10:26

This round-up from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems

Posted November 17, 2023 - 16:19

To get a sense of the European Commission’s perspective on the contribution of HEI’s to developing regional innovations systems, the attached report on ‘European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems’, may be enlightening. At the University of Glasgow, we are part of one of the Alliances, CIVIS, and I am grateful to colleagues in the that alliance for making me aware of this report, and supplying the summary below:

Making better places: The Challenge of Social Cohesion | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Posted November 16, 2023 - 16:34

In the face of increasing social inequality, migration, social exclusion and declining social mobility the concept of social cohesion now features prominently in discourse about communities both in academic literature and in social policy debates, yet despite its widespread use by academics, policy-makers and public officials, it is a concept whose succinct definition remains elusive.

 

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