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UNESCO Chair - GACER News - Febuary 5, 2013

Posted February 5, 2013 - 21:18 by Budd Hall

Greetings Friends,

First thank you all so very much for your support in getting information about the GUNi Call for Good Practices out last week; the deadline has been extend to February 10.  With your help the number of 'good practices' has more than doubled from around 45 to 94 as of today. There is still a need to receive short student videos and there is an opportunity to present posters as well.

Rajesh and I just finished an organizing meeting an hour ago and the plans for the May 13-15 event are very exciting indeed. The Barcelona team has unleashed a combination of creative and intellectual energy that will give us a programme structure that will unleash powerful transformative energies!  At the heart of the design are your ideas, your practices and your ideas for the future.

Please continue to get the word out particularly to those parts of the community and the world that are most often left out.

Forgive us for reposting the GUNi newsletter as many of you will have it, but it has all the information.

Thank you so very much!

Rajesh Tandon and Budd L Hall

Co-Chairs

UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

School of Public Administration

 

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