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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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Funding Opportunities, Partner Searches and Policy information

Posted November 25, 2011 - 19:36

A selection of European funding opportunities which may be of interest to PASCAL members, partners, associates and affiliates:

Partner Searches

Vinnova (Swedish Innovation and Growth Agency) program

The Swedish Cluster organization Future Position X is, together with the Swedish Transport Administration, launching a pre-study about future road traffic management.

EU Funding opportunities and partner searches - Calls for Proposals

Posted November 18, 2011 - 15:05

A new Call for Proposals has been issued under the FP7 Ideas Specific Programme for ERC Advanced Investigator Grants.

The budget for this Call €679.98 million (for all domains).

The call consists of three sub-calls:

  • Physical Sciences & Engineering
  • Life Sciences
  • Social Sciences & Humanities

Deadline for submissions:

-  Physical Sciences & Engineering - 16 February 2012

-  Life Sciences - 14 March 2012

-  Social Sciences & Humanities - 11 April 2012

Second Global Dialogue Communique - How Should Universities respond to global pressures for social and economic change?

Posted November 12, 2011 - 15:33

A new communiqué setting out a range of measures to sustain university engagement with communities has been published following the most recent meeting of the ‘Big Tent’ group of community university engagement networks hosted recently at the University of Glasgow by PASCAL International Observatory.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - November 2011

Posted November 7, 2011 - 22:58

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Presentations of the EUROlocal Conference

Posted November 5, 2011 - 12:34

The final conference of the EUROlocal project was held on 26-28 October and was opened in the city of Murten, Switzerland, by the mayor of the city, Christian Brechbühl.  There followed a series of excellent presentations and workshop events for some 50+ participants from 15 countries in Europe.

Presentations were made by the following speakers; a compilation of their presentations is presented below with a link to download this at the foot of the page:

 

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