News

This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Truly Civic: Strengthening the Connection between Universities and their Places

The final report of the UPP foundation’s consideration of the civic role of universities has just been published. Entitled “Truly Civic: Strengthening the connection between universities and their places’ it is featured below and attached.

Educational opportunities for older adults in the United States

The report Towards Active Ageing for All of the PASCAL and PIMA SIG on Learning in Later Life has circulated widely across a number of countries and stimulated further exchanges on learning in later life. One of the countries not covered by the SIG report is America, where a rich variety of approaches to learning in later life exist.

PASCAL and EMA agree further details of MoU on collaboration

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.

PIMA Bulletin 22

The PIMA Bulletin Number 22 for January 2019 can now be read in full below.

The crisis in Western democracy was an early attempt in PASCAL via the OTB (thinking outside the box) Observatory website facility, to promote discussion of the way that assaults on democracy (not only ‘western’) might be confronted. What is the response that lifelong learning (LLL) and its encompassing moral and political values might have to offer in reviving active democratic practice?

APPLY NOW: Capacity Development Acceleration Fund for Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods - deadline 31 March, 2019

Are you interested an early career research interested in learning more about sustainable cities and neighbourhoods?

The GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is pleased to launch a new fund, which aims to strengthen capacity of early career researchers to understand and address global challenges in fast-growing cities in developing countries.

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