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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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PASCAL Online 2014

The report featured below provides a summary of PASCAL’s growing online profile:

ACU Engage Community launch, Thursday 4 December and GUNi seminar, Thursday 11 December 2014

On the occasion of this year’s Talloires Network Leaders Conference 2014 (TLNC), and building on the responses to the Beyond 2015 campaign, the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) ia launching the ACU Engage Community, a new global network for universities committed to engaging with their local, national and regional communities.

Bruce Wilson meets President van Rompuy

Bruce Wilson, Director of PASCAL, was in Brisbane on Sunday 16 November where the EU centre that he directs at RMIT co-sponsored an event with the President of the European Council (Herman van Rompuy) and the new EC Vice President Dombrovskis. Here he is seen greeting President van Rompuy.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 6 - Benefiting from transnational experience; migration and the role of lifelong learning

This briefing highlights some emerging issues faced by migrants, and cities and regions in relation to lifelong learning policy and practice, particularly in the UK context.

Communicating in plain language, avoiding academic “silos”, developing “narratives” -- keys to City and Region Learning

The ways that cities and regions can truly advance themselves in meaningful ways hinges upon their ability to think and act as cities and regions.  Getting to the point where this may be accomplished is a long and difficult road, to say the least.  Learning is at the center of this, which is at the core of PASCAL.

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13th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - Glasgow

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