The Centre for Local Economic Development (CENLED) is a centre in the School of Economics (SE) within the College of Business and Economics (CBE) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ). CENLED was established in 2008, primarily for capacity building in the local economic development (LED) fields. CENLED also hosts the PASCAL International Observatory (Africa) headquarters.

This paper, La contribución de las universidades al desarrollo económico y social, recently published as a blog item from Fundación CYD, Spain, may be of interest to subscribers involved with the contribution of universities to cities and regions; an area that PASCAL itself still works in in various ways including in our work with global south partners in SUEUAA and the work we highlighted last week in Taiwan, which is part of a larger project in Hong Kong, Scotland and Italy.

PASCAL was delighted to be hosted on March 11^th by the Speaker of Hsinchu City Council in Taiwan, Hsiu-Jui Hsu at his offices. Professors Michael Osborne and Roberta Piazza were able to discuss the outcomes of a recent study, using PASCAL tools, led by Eugenia Chang, Principal of Datong Community College and Marten Ma of Yuanpei, University of Medical Technology concerning the contribution of that university to the development of the city.

In November 2018, Vice President Dr. Roland Tsai and Chief Officer of International and Cross-Strait Affairs Dr. Hsiao-Ling Huang, both of Yuanpei University of Medical Technology (YUMT), met with President Eugenia Chang of Datong Community College of Taipei City to initiate our assessment of practice of regional and community engagement.