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Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers at the 2016 Festival of Innovation in India

Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers, incumbent of the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education and Director of PASCAL Africa, has returned from India after being part of the 2016 Festival of Innovation, which focused on inclusive innovations.

Folkloric Festival Duhok

As a support for Duhok showcase for Glasgow conference as a multi-cultural seeking for peace for all its contents. Nawroz University, College of languages hold the 1st Folkloric festival. The aim of the festival was to show Kurdish heritage to the other nationalities in the city and also the festival focused on the role Kurdish special forces in front lines fighting for all humanity against ISIS. It is worth mentioning, that three members of PASCAL were present in this festival: Dr Kamal Ketuly, Dr Haithem Algargary, Mr Sherwan T Ameen.

On the eve of the PASCAL 2016 Conference - Programme, Papers and Showcases

On the eve of the PASCAL 2016 Conference in Glasgow 3-5 June, 2016, here's a reminder that a full set of information on places, times and facilities is available online for you to reference or download (click on each image):

Impact Report and a Refugee Statement from DVV International

A team of colleagues working for DVV International has looked deeper into a number of projects and programmes run with partners in different parts of the world during the period of 2009 to 2015. Usually the work in a variety of areas cover micro, meso and macro level activites.

The role of cities in preventing crisis

Kosef Konvitz, PASCAL Chair, was interviewed based on his recent book by Richard Florida. An edited version of this interview was just released on the CityLab/Atlantic Monthly site and is presented here:

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