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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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The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - October 2014

Posted October 7, 2014 - 21:07

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.

Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newletter for October 2014:

New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - 29-09-2014

Posted October 7, 2014 - 08:53

In this issue we feature 11 current papers on the theme of social capital:

The Concept of Satellite Museums in Regional Development

Posted October 5, 2014 - 10:04

In the last decades of the 20th Century we saw a very interesting trend in the museum branch internationally.

Newsletter for European Research in Learning and Work [L&W] - October 2014

Posted October 3, 2014 - 10:32

This is the latest edition of the L&W Newsletter, which will reach you via a mailing list of over 1400 experts in and beyond Europe. As always, it focuses on transnational research activities in the field of human resource development (HRD) and vocational education and training (VET), centred on major categories: conferences, networks, programmes, projects and publications. Many thanks to all who contributed information for this edition of the Newsletter!

Citizen Science and Informal Learning

Posted October 2, 2014 - 12:13

Richard Edwards and Ian Simpson at the University of Stirling have recently gained funding from the British Academy in the UK to explore the educational backgrounds of people contributing to citizen science projects and to examine what volunteers learn informally from participating in citizen science projects.

 

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