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PASCAL Briefing Paper 22 - Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education

Posted February 27, 2024 - 11:38 by Catherine Lido

We are pleased to publish PASCAL Briefing Paper 22, entitled Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education. PASCAL’s Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education builds upon our prior Special Interest Group in cultural heritage and literacy inclusion, to now combine rich museum theory with innovative field-based practices. We engage with diverse stakeholders, including universities, world-leading museum and heritage sites, and governmental stakeholders, to address increasing needs for more informed, strategic and entrepreneurial professionals within the cultural heritage sector, and dialogical spaces for knowledge exchange on inclusive cultural literacy and practice.

* POSTPONED * A Reflection on the Philosophical Foundation of Islamic Leadership - A Leverhulme Lecture by Nematollah Azizi

Posted November 28, 2023 - 15:53 by Bill Esmond

Start: Dec 5 2023 17:30

Timezone: Europe/London

The Multi Faith Centre, University of Derby

Kedleston Rd

Derby

United Kingdom

Sorry, this event is postponed

The next and 3^rd Leverhulme Lecture from Professor Nematollah Azizi, University of Kurdistan, Iran and Visiting Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow, entitled, A Reflection on the Philosophical Foundation of Islamic Leadership will be held on Tuesday, 5th December 2023, at 7.00 pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby. Kedleston Road Derby
DE22 1GB, UK.

New Museums and Heritage Masters Programme Organise Symposium in Glasgow

Posted September 21, 2023 - 17:12 by Rob Mark

The first group of students to participate in the new Master’s in Education in Museums and Heritage (EDUMaH) were given a warm welcome last week in Glasgow. The programme, which is funded through the Erasmus Mundus international programme, has students participating from all over the world. It involves a consortium of universities from Tartu in Estonia, Valetta in Malta, Radboud in the Netherlands, Dublin and Cork in Ireland, Mexico City and the European Museum Academy.

Workshop on Cultural Heritage and Impact Assessment: Report for the second online workshop, 19 May, 2021

Posted May 25, 2021 - 18:04 by Catherine Lido

*** UPDATED ***

This joint meeting was the second online workshop and third cross-organisation meeting between PASCAL International Observatory (Learning City Network on Cultural Heritage Education), the European Museums Academy (EMA), and SoPHIA – a project aiming to further promote collective reflection with the cultural and political sectors in Europe on the impact and quality of interventions in the European historical environment and cultural heritage at an urban level to promote a holistic impact assessment model, indicators, and standards.

Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment (SoPHIA) - Report on the online workshop, 28 April, 2021

Posted April 29, 2021 - 11:41 by Henrik Zipsane

The European Museums Academy has teamed up with the Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education Network of PASCAL on the 28^th of April to organise a joint webinar on cooperation with the SoPHIA- Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment.

Analogue and digital learning

Posted January 14, 2021 - 10:53 by Henrik Zipsane

From our discussions in December, I was inspired to think further about the challenges in learning through digital means. I attach a recent publication from the University of Padua and the European Museum Academy where the participants tried to observe and isolate trends in how museums around the world have used digital tools and developed new digital products during the pandemic.

Everyone Matters - Toowoomba, a Model City of Peace and Harmony | Multifaith Multicultural Centre, April Newsletter, 2020

Posted May 8, 2020 - 05:52 by Meiling Chow

We hope that you and your loved ones are keeping well during this time. Apologies for our lateness for the April Newsletter, but we hope you will enjoy reading on the 'Voices of Faith' radio program sharing in this issue:

Cultural Heritage Policy report - Elia Vlachou and Henrik Zipsane

Posted February 22, 2020 - 10:07 by Henrik Zipsane

Together with a colleague, Elia Vlachou also from the European Museum Academy (EMA), Henrik Zipsane, produced the attached literary review summary for cultural heritage policies on an international level. It is produced within the EU Horizon 2020 project Sophia (Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment). It provides an overview of what’s in the relevant policies here and now.

Summary of EMA-PASCAL Meeting: In recognition of museums development

Posted October 17, 2019 - 08:08 by Catherine Lido

From 19-21 September colleagues from 20 countries across Europe gathered in Ljubljana to celebrate the European Museum Academy (EMA) annual awards ceremony and conference (2019), which included talks by celebrated winners of the prestigious awards for best practice. Twenty-six museums were nominated this year, and the winner of the Micheletti award for work of excellence in social and industrial history was the Astra Museum complex in Transylvania, Romania - first time ever a winner from that country. The winner of the DASA award for excellent work in learning and education in museums was the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

PASCAL and EMA agree further details of MoU on collaboration

Posted February 11, 2019 - 11:17 by Henrik Zipsane

At a meeting in Östersund between PASCAL Observatory represented by Catherine Lido and Rob Mark, and European Museum Academy (EMA) represented by Karl Murr, Dirk Houtgraaf and Henrik Zipsane, we were able to explore further the collaboration between the organisations based on the letter of agreement signed in 2017.

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