Blogs

Rajesh and I are working on plans to combine our two mailing lists.  He has a one that he has used historically for his blogs of many years and I have maintained this list for the past 3-4 years.  Our plans are to continue to send our blogs out at least twice a month, but have them posted as well on our UNESCO Chair web site.

Like all years, today is April Fool’s Day; but my reflections are no less random:

PASCAL Universities' Regional Engagment programme (PURE) has been a highly visible project in the Helsinki metropolitan region. It belonged to the official research strategy and programme of the city of Helsinki from 2011-2015.

The EU Centre in Singapore is now inviting applications for the EUC Visiting Fellowship tenable in the period between May to November 2013. Supporting grants of various amounts of up to €6,000 commensurate with expertise, visiting commitments and duration will be provided for the Visiting Fellow to cover travel, accommodation and subsistence allowances to Singapore. 

Applicants should have a PhD and demonstrable experience and expertise (substantiated by a list of publications, involvement in research projects, policy work) in any of the following research areas:

The reports from a programme of work by Scotland's Future Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland were launched at a gathering in the Scottish Parliament on 4th February.   The programme had involved a series of seminars, roundtable discussions and workshops with a wide range of stakeholder groups across all stages of education, business, the voluntary sector and young people to provide an evidence base.  PASCAL had participated in a workshop bringing together international perspectives as part of this process.