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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New report - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Integration: Achieving a better balance between the economic, social and environmental dimensions

It has been mandated that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) currently under negotiation at the United Nations should achieve an appropriate balance between the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.

As a timely contribution to the post-2015 development agenda negotiations taking place at UN Headquarters in New York this week, Stakeholder Forum, in a study commissioned by the German Council for Sustainable Development, has examined integration in the proposed SDGs.

Bristol - A Learning City

Subscribers may be interested in learning city development in the city of Bristol in the West of England. 'Bristol: A Learning City', has been developed by organisations and businesses across the City and administered by Bristol City Council.  It follows a Mayor's Commission for Education and Skills, chaired by Ron Ritchie, which aimed to:

Leaders in South African university civic engagement share their perspectives

Featuring Vice Chancellor Adam Habib, Community Organizer Thabo Putu and Professor Joseph Francis, this month's edition of the Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement series -  LCEM December 2014 - features three leaders from two universities in South Africa, site of the 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference.

LCN spin off links students from Glasgow and Cork - University of Glasgow BA Community Development team welcomes University of Cork

The BA Community Development team at Glasgow University welcomed in the second week of January 2015, for the 2nd year running, students and staff from the University of Cork, who were on a week-long study visit  to Glasgow.

GUNi Newsletter - December 2014

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