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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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Lifelong learning driving universities’ ambitions? Dare we? Can we? Let’s! - U21 Lifelong Learning & Research Workshop

A U21 workshop on lifelong learning and research is being held at Glasgow in May 2012. Organised jointly by CR&DALL at the University of Glasgow and by the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the event is free and offers the opportunity for 'blue-sky thinking' with regard to the engagement role of universities.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - May 2012

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments - Commit to the Future We Want

All Stakeholders are encouraged to make and implement voluntary commitments at Rio+20 in order to reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.

Early Bird Registration and Exhibitor Prospectus Announced for 2012 GreenGov Symposium

The 2012 GreenGov Symposium aims to bring together leaders from government, the private sector, non-profits and academia to identify opportunities to create jobs, grow clean energy industries, and curb pollution by incorporating sustainable practices into the Federal Government¹s operations.

A strategy for restoring confidence and economic growth through green investment and innovation - LSE Policy Brief

With fiscal policy generally constrained by the need to restore confidence in the sustainability of public debt and the effectiveness of monetary policy to stimulate growth is reaching its limits, the question arises: what can advanced economy policymakers do to restore economic growth and stimulate investment?   A powerful instrument to restore growth is clear and credible policy to encourage investment in welfare-enhancing activities that need public support to be commercially viable. The low-carbon and wider 'green' sector is an exemplar for this.

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