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10th PASCAL Conference - Welcome by Jean-Marie Filloque

Dear Colleagues

It is a pleasure for me, as Vice Rector for LLL and academic affairs, on behalf of Pascal Olivard, Rector of the University of Brest, to welcome you in our city, in the framework of the 10th PASCAL Iinternational Observatory Conference.

Photos from the 10th PASCAL Conference

A selection of images from the early stages of the 10th PASCAL International Observetory Conference in Brest:

Making a case for university social responsibility

Chripa Schneller & Erich Thöni (Ed.), 2012: Knowledge Societies: Universities and their Social Responsibilities. Asia-Europe Foundation, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-07-1565-6

There is a perception that everyone is aware of what University Social Responsibility (USR) means. In reality, the understanding of this concept differs in focus, extent and action across many countries. To consolidate an overview of USR best practices in ASEM countries, the 2nd Asia-Europe Education Workshop "Knowledge Societies: Universities and their Social Responsibilities" was organised jointly by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the University of Innsbruck in Austria in June 2011.

Improve It Framework Scottish Launch in association with Bond - 20th November 2012

This is an opportunity for those in the Scottish international development community, including funders, NGO personnel, academics and consultants, to get to grips with two new tools for effectiveness – the Improve It Framework and the revised NIDOS Effectiveness Tool.

The Scottish launch of this package of effectiveness tools and resources will include funder perspectives and hands-on sessions to help organisations become even better at what they do, to be accountable to the people they seek to support, and to document their effectiveness for donors.

Call for papers - Between Global and Local: Adult learning and development network, April 25-27, Ghent, Belgium

Please find below the call for papers for the next conference of the Between Global and Local: adult learning and development network, April 25-27, Ghent, Belgium. Deadline for submitting abstract is January 22:

Urban living and urban developments question increasingly the social and spatial conditions for living together. Urban developments can refer to changing social and spatial conditions within cities as well as in rural areas. In the latter case, this may involve a reflection on how urbanising trends and developments affect for instance local community traditions. In the current discourses, urban public space is on the one hand assumed to lack the conditions for the development of social cohesion, community life and citizenship. On the other hand cities are assumed to represent dynamic sites of social innovation and transformation. Recent changes in the social and spatial structure of cities increase the need to act and reflect upon the tensions in these ‘readings’ of community and urban developments.

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14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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