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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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Connecting Research with Cities

Posted August 9, 2014 - 08:31

In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline what is happening on urban systems and technology development inside UK universities. The attached document is the report of that commission.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 4 - Learning Cities: Strategies for promoting inclusion

Posted August 8, 2014 - 16:05

This paper provides an overview of some of the insights and lessons derived from exchanges between cities in many parts of the world which participated in the PASCAL International Exchanges programme (PIE) over the past 4 years, as cities faced the challenge of finding new ways in which their learning city strategies can contribute to inclusion objectives.

How can universities support disadvantaged communities?

Posted August 8, 2014 - 08:43

This report written by Fred Robinson, Ian Zass-Ogilvie and Ray Hudson for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the UK comes a little late to our attention as it was published in 2012, but will be of interest to many subscribers.

University-regional partnerships across Europe

Posted August 8, 2014 - 08:36

This booklet featured below and attached  provides a variety of case studies of university-regional partnerships across Europe.  They have been provided by members of the S3 Platform established by Euroepan Commission's DG Regional Policy and managed by the Joint Research Centre in Seville.

The Internet of Everything for Cities

Posted August 8, 2014 - 08:25

Subscribers may be interested in the point of view published by CISCO concerned with connectedness and liveability in cities and communities. Once it was the 'Internet of Things': now it is the 'Internet of Everything' in our Smart Cities. This is of course linked to the Big Data revolution and the ability of modern computing methods to analyse large and diverse digitalised information, and the use of sensors in objects of many sorts. I'd welcome your thoughts on this topic.

 

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