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In early January, at the 107th annual Indian Science Congress held in Bengaluru, the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India shared its draft policy on Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR), inviting discussion. As a leading country with a strong base of modern science and its institutions, India’s efforts to prepare a framework of social responsibility of science is really very meaningful and important.

We are delighted to announce that the 16th PASCAL Conference, New Rural Horizons: Adult and intergenerational learning as catalysts for supporting resilient rural futures, will be held from 13-15 March 2019 in Ireland at University College Cork, and in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Further details of the event will be available at this site very shortly.

The 15th PASCAL Conference will be held in Korea on 30-31 August 2018. The venue is the city of Suwon, part of metropolitan Seoul, Korea. The co-organiser is the GyeonggiDo Provincial Institute of Lifelong Learning (GILL).  The main theme of this first East Asia PASCAL Conference is "The Role of Lifelong Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”.  

The year 2016 gives one pause. The attacks of January 2015 in Paris were directed against free speech and religious tolerance; they failed: Charlie Hebdo sales are up, and opinion polls show that overwhelmingly, the French have positive views of Muslims, Jews and Europe. The attacks of November 2015 in Paris and July 2016 in Nice however succeeded in destablising through fear: people changed their daily routines or vacation plans. The elections in the UK and US are more difficult to characterize because this time, in the West, fantasy defeated fact, emotion triumphed over reason.

We have made arrangements for the reservation of a limited number of rooms for delegates with a number of hotels close to the university campus within various price ranges for the nights of 2, 3 and 4 June 2016 as follows: