Community Development

Invitation to launch of a film on domestic abuse in Europe, Friday 24 July 2015, 0915, Glasgow

You are invited to the launch on Friday 24 July at 0915 of a short film on domestic abuse in Europe and invite you to come and join us to celebrate the work of the European project EX-RE-MET with the teams from Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain and UK.

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Monday, 20 July, 2015

Lifelong Learning in Turkey - opportunities for Expert positions - Strict Deadline 23 June

The British Council, in consortium with CaT Europe, Ecorys Turkey and PASCAL/CR&DALL at the University of Glasgow, has been shortlisted for the EU-funded Promoting Life Long Learning II in Turkey project.

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Thursday, 18 June, 2015

11th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development

Local policymakers have a critical role to play in developing more resilient and inclusive economies, particularly because they are well-positioned to take a more integrated approach to tackling complex challenges and seizing new opportunities.

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Tuesday, 19 May, 2015

Bowling Together - Lifelong Learning as a Collective Challenge in the North and the South

I am very pleased to attach for subscribers of PASCAL, a copy of my inaugural address as Professor in Lifelong Learning and Social Intervention within Globalisation Studies Groningen (GSG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. I welcome your comments.

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Thursday, 14 May, 2015

Kentucky meets the East End of Glasgow

As part of an international collaboration between the University of Glasgow (Community Development team & students) and the University of Kentucky, a week long study visit was organised for the students, staff and their elected member from Kentucky to spend some time exploring Community Development in the East End of Glasgow.

Our visitors were welcomed to the city with a civic reception from the Lord Provost Sadie Docherty and a number of locally elected councillors along with an East End MP and MSP.

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Saturday, 2 May, 2015

12th PASCAL conference - Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers, 7-9 October 2015

The deadline for Abstracts for the 12th PASCAL conference is 18th May 2015. The conference will be hosted by one of Italy’s leading institutions, the University of Catania, in the beautiful island of Sicily. The theme of the conference concerns how cities and their regions are connected to their universities at strategic frontiers. These include knowledge and political frontiers, and each is linked to global challenges that include employment, migration, health, food security, culture and climate change.

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Friday, 1 May, 2015

Break Down or Break Out - Breakin' News across Europe

The Break Down or Break Out project, financed by the European Commission, is missioned to find new ways for long-term unemployed adults through building capacity to take action in the community.

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Monday, 6 April, 2015

An Invitation to contribute to DISCUSS

DISCUSS, the European Platform for Communities of Practice in Lifelong Learning seeks to do the following:

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Wednesday, 18 March, 2015

LETAE National Seminar

** A report on this seminar may be found here **

Work-based and work-related learning in higher education for adult learners is seen as crucial to address the predicted labour market skills gap identified in such communiques as: New Skills for New Jobs Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs; and, An Agenda for new skills and jobs: A European contribution towards full employment as part of the Europe 2020 strategy.

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Tuesday, 17 March, 2015

OEPS advisory forum

Opening Educational Practices in Scotland - open advisory forum The OEPS project has a focus on open education in the context of widening participation and transitions and we are very keen to have a broad range of participants at the event. It should also be of interest to anyone interested in learning and teaching and curriculum development.

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Monday, 9 March, 2015

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