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The project Benchmarking Future City/Regions may be of interest to subscribers. The following is an extract from its website and describes its aims:

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Ilpo Laitinen, City of Helsinki, Professor Balázs Németh, University of Pecs and Professor Roberta Piazza, University of Catania, have been appointed as Associate Directors of PASCAL. They will respectively have responsibility for developing the work of PASCAL in the Nordic countries, Eastern and Central Europe, and in Southern Europe.

The final report and annexes of case studies from a Study on Innovation in Higher Education undertaken for the European Union in 2013 led by LSE Enterprise and the Panteia Group have just been published. PASCAL undertook two of the case studies within this study, which are found in the annex as follows:

As part of an international collaboration made possible through the Talloires Network and the Kettering Foundation research partnership into studying Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement, the University of Glasgow along with colleagues and our community partners, from University of Western Sydney, American University of Cairo, International Medical University in Malaysia, Tecnológico de Monterrey University (one of the University of Glasgow's Universitas 21

Here is another round of random reflections for your perusal: