Universities' Third Mission

Paris Symposium in honour of Jarl Bengtsson, co-founder and first chair of the PASCAL Board - 9 April Paris

Posted March 31, 2015 - 16:48 by Hans Schuetze

This is a reminder that there will be a Symposium in honour of Jarl Bengtsson which will take place in Paris  on April 9. All PASCAL-ers  who can make it there are welcome (because of limited space please inform Mike Osborne or Hans Schuetze of your intention). A poster and program are featured below and attached.

The Role of Higher Education in Regional and Community Development and in the Time of Economic Crisis

Posted March 19, 2015 - 13:39 by David Shaw

The details of the latest book from PASCAL, The Role of Higher Education in Regional and Community Development and in the Time of Economic Crisis, edited by Caroline Carlot, University of Strasbourg, Jean-Marie Filloque, University of Brittany, and Mike Osborne and Peter Welsh, both University of Glasgow, are now available on the NIACE website at this link.

Community Development Society 2015 Conference: Deadline for papers extended: 15 February

Posted February 8, 2015 - 09:22 by Leone Wheeler
Jul 19 2015
Jul 22 2015
US/Eastern
Hilton Lexington Downtown Hotel
369 West Vine Street
Lexington

Community activists and developers are integrating the arts and culture into building vibrant communities. Increasingly, groups and organizations are leveraging the arts and imagination to engage citizens in community development. In doing so, they create places and organizations that support economic diversity and strengthen the aesthetics of communities. There is a growing awareness that the arts can serve as a vehicle to bring people together.

Kelvin Hall as a state of the art facility for research, teaching and learning, and public engagement

Posted January 27, 2015 - 21:43 by David Gaimster

Subscribers may be interested in knowing about a major initiative in Glasgow. The redevelopment of Kelvin Hall (KH) offers the University (UoG) and City of Glasgow the opportunity to create an integrated, state of the art facility for research, teaching and learning, and public engagement in the area of historic collections and the visual arts.

Leaders in South African university civic engagement share their perspectives

Posted January 15, 2015 - 09:21 by Mike Osborne

Featuring Vice Chancellor Adam Habib, Community Organizer Thabo Putu and Professor Joseph Francis, this month's edition of the Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement series -  LCEM December 2014 - features three leaders from two universities in South Africa, site of the 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference.

Public Seminar: The Idea of the University for the 21st Century - 9 December, 2014

Posted November 30, 2014 - 11:29 by Franny Martens
Dec 9 2014 10:30
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT University - Swanston Academic Building
445 Swanston Street
Melbourne

Starting from the observation that there is no longer a unifying “idea of the university” and that this might constitute a problem, in this presentation Professor Kehm will first present the idea of (European) university development as a sequence of generations.

PASCAL Director Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers to give keynote at TNLC in Cape Town

Posted November 11, 2014 - 12:07 by Frances Gaughan

PASCAL Director, Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers will be giving the keynote at the opening of the Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Cape Town on December 2, 2014, invited by the CEO of Talloires and the organizing team at the University of Stellenbosch.

How can universities support disadvantaged communities?

Posted August 8, 2014 - 09:43 by Alan Foster

This report written by Fred Robinson, Ian Zass-Ogilvie and Ray Hudson for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in the UK comes a little late to our attention as it was published in 2012, but will be of interest to many subscribers.

University-regional partnerships across Europe

Posted August 8, 2014 - 09:36 by Alan Foster

This booklet featured below and attached  provides a variety of case studies of university-regional partnerships across Europe.  They have been provided by members of the S3 Platform established by Euroepan Commission's DG Regional Policy and managed by the Joint Research Centre in Seville.

PASCAL 2010 Keynote - Neuroscience, place, learning & the university - Steve Garlick

Posted December 15, 2010 - 12:17 by Steve Garlick

A keynote presentation by Steve Garlick:

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