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Please find feaured below and attached a copy of the paper presented by Professor Michael Osborne, Director of PASCAL in Europe, written with Dr Catherine Lido, at the recent International Conference of Taipei Learning City, which has been translated into Mandarin.
With support from the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the NIU Center for Governmental Studies recently published a report, Emergence and Growth of Community Supported Enterprises describing how Community Supported Enterprises are organized and operate in the U.S. The report authored by Norman Walzer and Jessica Sandoval, is featured in full below.
Briony Penn, PASCAL publication author, just got back from a 5 week long book tour for her latest book. Leaving the genre of children’s literature, her book, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan is the biography of a man who believed in getting into rural communities, talking to people and inspiring them about nature, conservation and science.
The fourth PASCAL Inclusion Workshop on Seniors as Lifelong Learners was held in Melbourne on 30 November hosted by the RMIT EU Centre. The report of the workshop by Denise Reghenzani is featured below and attached.
We have made arrangements with a local tour operator to offer special prices to Conference attendees wishing to take advantage of the spectacular locations close to Catania.
We are pleased to announce that Manchester University Press will offer a discount of 20% to PASCAL subscribers to the following titles In the PASCAL Series on universities and lifelong learning:
RMIT, City campus, Pavilion 1, level 10, RMIT Design Hub
Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets
Melbourne
The EU Centre at RMIT in conjunction with the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges at the University of Melbourne, will host a seminar at RMIT on Wednesday, 18 March from 12-2pm, at which HE Andris Teikmanis, Ambassador of Latvia to Australia and New Zealand will be speaking on the topic of ‘European Challenges; the Baltic Outlook’.
Dr Chester Shaba, is an Education Specialist and Programme Manager for UNICEF’s Safe Schools Initiative (SSI) in Nigeria. Dr Shaba is leading a team of specialists to develop a strategy to ensure the widening access to education for all internally displaced out-of-school children (OOSCs) living in host communities.
The BA Community Development team at Glasgow University welcomed in the second week of January 2015, for the 2nd year running, students and staff from the University of Cork, who were on a week-long study visit to Glasgow.
To start off your New Year with a bang rather than a whimper here are three items of interest sent to us recently from our colleagues at the Atlantic Arc Cities.