PUMR - Knowledge Sharing

PUMR is for universities that see themselves at the heart of their communities, driving economic, social and environmental change through the creation of new knowledge, innovative partnership, and providing staff and students who act as a power for positive change.

In times of economic constraint, PUMR aims to provide a cost effective approach to securing value for participating universities from such enterprise and innovation. PUMR provides:

• a forum for sharing and exchanging knowledge about effective policies for change between members of PUMR, to benchmark performance against best practices and to act as a sounding board for developing new policies, respectful of the diversity of approaches to community engagement that exist across the globe
• opportunities for coaching for improved performance based on tried and tested models
• the opportunity to join a powerful consortium of like-minded universities seeking improved ways of working consistent with PUMR principles
• the opportunity to participate in influential collaborative research contacts with policy-makers in trans-national organisations, such as the EC and its Directorates, and national governments across the globe.

More specially, the programme offers:

• programme membership of PASCAL (including membership newsletters, articles, access to the Observatory materials through the PASCAL website)
• face-to-face and virtual social networking, sharing successful practice in enhancing the lives of individuals and businesses - a club of like-minded universities with a dedicated PUMR area on the PASCAL website
• access to relevant benchmarking tools
• coaching projects for universities to develop capacity for collaboration with and leadership within communities
• advice on how universities might ensure the involvement of academics in outward-looking enterprises
• research co-ordination and publishing opportunities
• PASCAL validation of participating universities as Universities for a Modern Renaissance
• eventual creation of a virtual, global University for a Modern Renaissance working through partner universities.

For further information

Dr Alan Foster, PASCAL Executive Officer  [email protected]

Professor James Powell Project Academic Director  [email protected]

Dr Lesley Doyle PASCAL Centre Deputy Director  [email protected]