In its submission to the Expert Panel of the Review of Federal Support to Research and Development in Canada, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences makes reference to Pascal's PURE project. It suggests that  'a similar model, possibly using vouchers, could be adopted for Canada to measure local and national partnerships and ensure they have the broadest benefit possible'. 

Last week from 7-9 March 2011, the final conference on the Action Plan on Adult Learning, organised by the European Commission and the Hungarian Presidency was held in Budapest. During this conference, Research voor Beleid presented findings of a joint research project on ongoing reforms. This study included expert contributions from PASCAL Board member Professor Balazs Nemeth, associate Kate Sankey and PASCAL Co-Director Mike Osborne.