Universities' Third Mission

Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET in Hong Kong

Posted March 20, 2018 - 19:01 by Roberta Piazza

A PASCAL team consisting of John Tibbitt, Mike Osborne and Roberta Piazza were delighted to be able to visit Hong Kong during the week beginning 12 March 2018 in order to meet those colleges who had piloted the benchmarking tool of the Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET project.

Widening Regional Engagement of HE and TVET

Posted March 16, 2018 - 02:54 by John Tibbitt

This project at the University of Glasgow is funded under by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through an Impact Acceleration Grant (IAA), ES/M500471/1. It seeks to

Promoting Community Engagement for Vocational and Professional Education and Training - Hong Kong, 15 March 2018

Posted February 28, 2018 - 11:36 by Margarita Pavlova

We are pleased to announce that the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre (Hong Kong) in collaboration with the PASCAL Observatory will be holding an international symposium on 15 March 2018 from 0915-1315 at The Education University of Hong Kong (Block A - University Council Chamber). This Symposium will discuss findings of the benchmarking research conducted in Hong Kong and several European cities, and importance of community engagement for Vocational and Professional Education and Training (VPET).

Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA) International Seminar, Tuesday 19th December 2017

Start: Dec 19 2017

Timezone: Europe/London

University of Glasgow, St Andrews Building

20 Eldon St, Room 432

Glasgow

Scotland

CR&DALL (the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning), the School of Education at the University of Glasgow and its partners would like to invite you to an international seminar to launch the Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA) project funded by the British Academy under the Cities and Infrastructure programme, which is part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

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Do Universities Have a "Democracy Effect"? - CityLab

Posted November 14, 2017 - 10:57 by Josef Konvitz

A new study from the London School of Economics suggests that having more universities in a city is a good thing - but not necessarily for the usual reasons. Economic output is higher, of course, but the correlations with local spending and investment by universities, their flow of innovations, and even their role training and educating people does not explain enough.

Suburbs need Beauty - a community/university project combating the Mafia in Catania

Posted November 12, 2017 - 12:55

I hope that PASCAL subscribers will be interested to watch the video of a multidisciplinary laboratory concerned with investigating the Mafia's landscape through this link. I conducted this work with a colleague from the Engineering Department of the University of Catania in 2016/2017. It's an example of a university-community education project that we realised in a deprived area around Catania.

UNESCO Chair in CBR Newsletter: November 2017

Posted November 6, 2017 - 14:33

We are please to feature the latest Newsletter from the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Relation (CBR):

Invitation - "What is the Role of Universities in International Development?"

Start: Nov 15 2017 15:00

End: Nov 15 2017 18:00

Timezone: Europe/London

Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre

Glasgow

Scotland

You are cordially invited to an interactive panel discussion on the topic “What is the role of universities in international development?” hosted by the Glasgow Centre for International Development (GCID). This event, taking place on November 15^th, marks a new chapter for GCID, as we explore the role of universities in the ever-changing environment of funding, impact and interdisciplinarity.

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The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - October, 2017

Posted October 10, 2017 - 06:45

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.

Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newsletter for October, 2017:

British Academy-funded Cities & Infrastructure research in Glasgow

Posted September 20, 2017 - 16:38

The British Academy has just announced the successful applicants to its new Cities & Infrastructure research funding programme, and we are pleased to announce that one of these projects is being led from the University of Glasgow with Professor Michael Osborne, Director of PASCAL, as the Principal Investigator, and Dr Muir Houston, Dr Lavinia Hirsu, Dr Kasia Borokowska and Dr Neil Burnside all as co-investigators.

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