The first face to face residency under the January 2018 cohort of the Mentor Training Program under Knowledge for Change (K4C), was conducted between March 11 and March 23, 2018 at PRIA, New Delhi and O P Jindal Global University, Sonepat. Mentors from seven countries came together for a two-week intensive training and learning on Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The residency was facilitated by UNESCO Co-Chairs, Dr Budd Hall and Dr Rajesh Tandon. Guest lecturers included Dr Darlene Clover from University of Victoria and Dr Paulo Wangoola from MPAMBO Multiversity, Uganda.

The full report on the residency is available here:
http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/pdf/resource/F2F_REPORT.pdf

The full paper is available on the UNESCO Chair website and can be accessed here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/pdf/resource/Tremblay_Harris_2018_Geoforum.pdf

The full paper is available on the UNESCO Chair website and can be accessed here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/pdf/resource/Community_Engagement_Way_Forward.pdf

* To access more UNESCO Chair publications, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/resources/

A copy of his presentation can be accessed here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/pdf/resource/ANAQH_Kuwait.pdf

Dr Tandon’s article on his reflections from the conference is also published as a blog on the UNESCO Chair website and featured in the University News, April 2018 edition. It can be accessed here: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20180403141147794

Read more about the event here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/2018/04/13/quality-in-higher-education-anqahe-3rd-regional-conference-2018-kuwait/

A copy of his presentation is available here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/pdf/resource/EDC_Conference_2018.pdf

More information about the event can be found at the EDC 2018 twitter account: https://twitter.com/EDC2018UVIC

*To know more about the UNESCO Chair activities, refer to the ‘Programs & Initiatives’ section on the UNESCO Chair website. Access it here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/

For more news on this front, keep visiting the K4C space on the UNESCO Chair website: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/k4c-2/

* To know more about the UNESCO Chair training activities, visit the ‘Capacity Enhancement’ section of the Chair website: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/category/capacity-enhancement/

Dr. Crystal Tremblay and Dr. Jutta Gutberlet will be in Kimusu, Kenya from April 23-28, 2018 co-hosting an international conference on waste governance, as part of a SSHRC project and in partnership with European partners and networks. The conference will bring together partners who will present case studies on waste picker initiatives in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Kisumu (Kenya), Managua (Nicaragua), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), São Paulo (Brazil), Vancouver & Montreal (Canada). For more information, please visit: www.pswm.uvic.ca

Community Based Research Canada and the Centre for Community Based Research, will be hosting a workshop in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on May 28, 2018. The workshop will feature a reflective assessment tool for those doing community-based research and for those assessing the quality and impact of community-based research proposals and projects. This tool intends to challenge us to improve how research is done with communities. CBRC/CCBR have been involved in collaboratively developing and testing this tool over the past four years beginning with the SSHRC-funded National Summit on CBR excellence. More details about the tool and registration can be found here.

The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Buenos Aires in the City of Buenos Aires. Our Conference has been established as the most important event in the Latin American region for experts and institutions that drive the service-learning pedagogical approach. As in previous years, we will have workshops for participants with varying experience in the development of service-learning practices and programs and also with the participation of leading specialists from Argentina, Latin America, and other regions around the world.

Call for papers open until May 28th: http://www.clayss.org.ar/archivo_descargas/c4papers21.pdf

For further information, please check our Conference Site: http://www.clayss.org/english/conference/index.html

Organized by the Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario (CLAYSS) and with the support of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Tuzla - PMF, and International Association "Interactive open schools" - MIOS the SERVICE-LEARNING TRAINING for HIGHER EDUCATION will take place on 21st and 22nd June, 2018 at the premises of the University of Tuzla. Registrations can be done here: https://mios1.typeform.com/to/OPpTjr.

This webinar (hosted by Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) will include presenters from the Trent Community Research Centre and McMaster University’s Office of Community Engagement who will discuss the way in which they help community to prepare, broker, develop and provide ongoing support for research projects involving students and community. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of different community-based research development models, as well as tools and resources for enhancing research outcomes for students, faculty, and community partners. For more information, or to register for this webinar, please visit the CFICE website.

The 15th PASCAL International Conference to co-organised and hosted by the Gyeonggi Do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning (GILL)and Ajou University from 30 August -1 September 2018 at Suwon City, Republic of Korea. The main theme of the Conference is “Learning Cities, Learning Societies and the Sustainable Development Goals: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice”. More details are available here: http://pobs.cc/1igs8.

The Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) has recently announced the GUNi International Conference on Humanities and Higher Education: Generating Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities, which aims to be an international meeting debating on the role of the humanities, and the interrelation between humanities, science and technology in the 21st Century with a special focus on Higher Education. The registration for the conference is now open and can be done here: https://www.conftool.com/humanities-and-higher-education-2018/ . More information can be found here: http://www.guninetwork.org/activity/international-conference-humanities-and-higher-education.

The inSPIRES project has recently announced its breakthrough campaign: Strengthening the transformative potential of science shops! The campaign’s main goal is to collect, develop and evaluate ideas related to science shops. You can join the platform here: inspires.be-novative.com and start sharing your ideas. You can also join Join now at landing.be-novative.com/inspires and get the chance to win: Free admission to the Living Knowledge 8 conference; Exposure for a publication supported by InSPIRES & ESSRG; and support from InSPIRES to work on your potential solutions.

The Community University Partnership Initiative (CUPI) supports community organisations and university researchers to create trusting and useful research collaborations which benefit all the partners involved. CUPI offers community organisations and universities, a chance to meet and explore if and how they could work together. Potential partnerships, emerging from these meetings, can then apply for small grants to help cover the cost of exploring their ideas to develop research projects together. Seed corn grants of up to £1000 are available to support partnership development. Read more on this initiative here: https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/nccpe-projects-and-services/nccpe-projects/community-university-partnership-initiative

*To know more about what is happening across the world in the field of community engagement, community based research and social responsibility in higher education, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/category/in-the-news/

This event will be held in Ottawa, on June 14-15, 2018. She will speak about the K4C initaitve and more broadly on innovations in impact measurement and community engagement. More information on this event can be found here: http://aesisnet.com/event/ios18/

What we are calling a knowledge democracy movement has clearly reached a new stage of maturity. Whether it is the community-based participatory research and engaged scholarship we see now in many university-community partnerships, the growth of open science and citizen’s science initiatives, the recognition of multiple subaltern epistemologies, the Indigenous resurgence or the citizen-led and movement-led networked learning within global civil society, the role of citizen-led, knowledge has escaped the confines of the academy and is being understood as key to transformation needed when facing the complex and wicked problems in our cities, regions and world.

Read more here:http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/2018/04/24/open-letter-by-drs-hall-tandon-knowledge-democracy-on-the-move/

Talk on Knowledge, Innovation and UN SDGs: The Knowledge for Change (K4C) Global Consortium, London, April 26, 2018. For details, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/events/talk-on-knowledge-innovation-and-un-sdgs-the-knowledge-for-change-k4c-global-consortium/

2nd HEIRRI Conference, Vienna, April 27, 2018. For details, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/events/2nd-heirri-conference/

CBPR Workshop, University of Regina, May 28, 2018. For details, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/events/cbpr-workshop-at-congress-of-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-at-the-university-of-regina/

Living Knowledge Network Conference 2018, Budapest, Hungary, May 31-June 2, 2018. For details, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/events/living-knowledge-network-conference-2018/

*To know more about the upcoming engagements of the Co-chair and the Chair team, click here: http://unescochair-cbrsr.org/index.php/events-3/