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Call for proposals for the Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship Programme

The OECD is launching the Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship Programme to support individuals in conducting quantitative, evidence-based research on education, particularly in emerging economies. The programme, named after a former director of the OECD’s Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs department, will provide funding for up to one year, including time spent at OECD headquarters in Paris.

GUNiResearch Project on Community Engagement: Invitation to participate

The Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) would like to invite you to take part in a research project on worldwide initiatives on community university engagement (CUE) by completing an online survey questionnaire.

10th PASCAL Conference - Welcome by Jean-Marie Filloque

Dear Colleagues

It is a pleasure for me, as Vice Rector for LLL and academic affairs, on behalf of Pascal Olivard, Rector of the University of Brest, to welcome you in our city, in the framework of the 10th PASCAL Iinternational Observatory Conference.

Photos from the 10th PASCAL Conference

A selection of images from the early stages of the 10th PASCAL International Observetory Conference in Brest:

Call for papers - Between Global and Local: Adult learning and development network, April 25-27, Ghent, Belgium

Please find below the call for papers for the next conference of the Between Global and Local: adult learning and development network, April 25-27, Ghent, Belgium. Deadline for submitting abstract is January 22:

Urban living and urban developments question increasingly the social and spatial conditions for living together. Urban developments can refer to changing social and spatial conditions within cities as well as in rural areas. In the latter case, this may involve a reflection on how urbanising trends and developments affect for instance local community traditions. In the current discourses, urban public space is on the one hand assumed to lack the conditions for the development of social cohesion, community life and citizenship. On the other hand cities are assumed to represent dynamic sites of social innovation and transformation. Recent changes in the social and spatial structure of cities increase the need to act and reflect upon the tensions in these ‘readings’ of community and urban developments.

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13th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - Glasgow

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