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The Natural Browsing project and PASCAL - a rather unique collaboration

Posted October 2, 2011 - 14:27 by Mike Osborne

On the face of it, involvement with the dissemination of a leading-edge computer science project would seem to be outside of PASCAL's remit.  What have "semantic search" and "natural languague processing" got to do with the social sciences? This is exactly the question we asked ourselves when invited by our colleagues from the Puglia Region to get involved in the Natural Browsing project.

New Knowledge Exchange Call in UK

Posted July 22, 2011 - 10:00 by Mike Osborne

The next Knowledge Exchange of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK will open from the 1st September 2011 until the 27th October 2011. The ESRC will again be running two schemes, the Follow on Fund scheme and a Knowledge Exchange Opportunities scheme.

This call is aimed at social science researchers at all stages of their career and at organisations in the business, public and civil society sectors, with the intention of encouraging dialogue and collaboration between these groups. 

Latest Issue of JACE - four articles on universities and regional development

Posted July 16, 2011 - 09:59 by Mike Osborne

The latest issue of the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (JACE 17.1) has just been published, and includes articles by PASCAL board members and associates.

PURE FM

Posted May 31, 2011 - 07:57 by Mike Osborne

After a very successful conference in Brussels on 19/20 May, we could not have imagined that our Belgian hosts would immediately create a radio station to celebrate the work of PURE, but here is the evidence.

A more serious full report can be found here.

 

PURE FM

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U-Multirank: Multi- dimensional Global ranking of Universities; a feasibility project.

Posted April 12, 2011 - 11:44 by Mike Osborne

This is a project funded by the European Commission led by a consortium headed by CHEPS in the Netherlands. It is concerned with field-based ranking of HEIs.

According to the project's website:

U-Map - a European classification of higher education institutions

Posted April 11, 2011 - 15:50 by Mike Osborne

U-Map is a project funded by the European Commission in which earlier work concerned with the European classification of higher education institutions is further developed and implemented. U-Map offers two tools to enhance transparency. ProfileFinder produces a list of higher education institutions (HEIs) that are comparable on the characteristics that have been selected. ProfileViewer gives an institutional activity profile that can used to compare three HEIs. U-Map is presented in demo-mode.

UNICREDS - How different models of higher education can benefit regional economic development

Posted February 9, 2011 - 18:25 by Mike Osborne

Our PURE project has amongst amongst its regions, Devon and Cornwall in the South West of England. Therefore we are very interested in the UNICREDS project, details of which are found at http://www.unicreds.eu/

PURE Visit to Flanders - Belgium Government resigns

Posted April 27, 2010 - 09:36 by Mike Osborne

Dear All

Last Thursday. the Belgian cabinet resigned on the second day of the PURE visit to Flanders which has resulted in a fundamental constitutional crisis that threatens the future of the Belgian state. Barry Hake, who led the CDG wishes to point out that the PASCAL team were in no way responsible.

I might add that the University of Glasgow will not be using this event as an example of impact for the next Research Excellence Framework exercise carried out on behalf of the UK government.

Best wishes Mike

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The Informed Cities Initiative, Local Governments for Sustainability and the 6th European Sustainable Cities & Towns Conference

Posted April 12, 2010 - 16:37 by Mike Osborne

Dear All,

I've just picked up information about the Informed Cities initiative – making research work for local sustainability - from a colleague in Turku who is visiting me later this week. This is a European project funded under the Framework Programme 7, which aims to enhance the connectivity between research and policy-making in sustainable development, with a focus on tools for urban management.

Paul Belanger in Shanghai, 22-23 July at 2nd World Forum on LLL

Posted April 9, 2010 - 14:08 by Mike Osborne

Dear Colleagues,

This event will be of interest and includes our Associate, Paul Belanger as a speaker. I have pasted in text from a recent message.

Best wishes Mike

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13th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - Glasgow

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