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Salford Money Line

Salford Money Line is just one of 13 successful and sustained ‘Community Banks’, operating across the whole UK. It has been developed by ordinary people, with support from their local university, to meet real local needs, as conventional banks ‘flee from poverty’. The university gave its local community the support, confidence and ability to develop such micro finance organisations for themselves.

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Professor Powell recently gave a series of lectures to universities in Puglia, Italy about PUMR and its implications with respect to improving the relationships between universities and their city regions. The series was organised by Dttr. Ettore Ruggiero, Director of Universus in Bari, where local universities are keen to become part of the PUMR assessment, coaching, evaluation and validation programme. The presentation's starting point was a recent communiqué from the European Committee of the Regions which indicates:

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:

PUMR - Levels of Participation

The programme has been designed to start from the differing positions in which participating institutions will find themselves, and the consequently different configurations of needs that institutions will have. We recognise that there is no one formula that fits all. However, we offer as a starting point a well-validated tool (UPBEAT) for self-assessment and for development that has been developed by the PURE Director, Professor James Powell, and that has been used in a range of international contexts.

PUMR - Self-assessment, Formative and Summative Evaluation, Coaching Support

Self-assessment, evaluation and coaching recognises the different positions in which participating institutions will find themselves, and the consequently different configurations of needs that institutions will have. The PUMR Core Team and those drawn from its 60 plus PASCAL Associates from around the world, are all experts in their fields.

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