One aspect of the university contribution to regional development is service learning. The fifth book, Towards a Global History of Service-Learning, published as part of the Uniservitate Collection presents the origins, development and particularities of service-learning on five continents.

To get a sense of the European Commission’s perspective on the contribution of HEI’s to developing regional innovations systems, the attached report on ‘European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems’, may be enlightening. At the University of Glasgow, we are part of one of the Alliances, CIVIS, and I am grateful to colleagues in the that alliance for making me aware of this report, and supplying the summary below:

It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2022 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship, now in its thirteenth edition. The secretariat received impressive nominations from member institutions around the world. I offer my gratitude to the program leaders and students who are implementing the Talloires Network’s values for higher education in collaboration with their local communities.