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PASCAL Asia-Pacific Center launched

Submitted by Mario Delos Reyes on November 20, 2023 - 17:09

UP Diliman (UPD) recently launched the PASCAL Regional Centre for Asia-Pacific, to be housed at the UPD School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP).

"We are confident that this collaboration will trigger innovation in education, research, and public service in the 21st century given the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world."

SURP Dean Dina C. Magnaye said.

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Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda

Submitted by Catherine Lido on November 20, 2023 - 09:52

The Gendered Journeys international and interdisciplinary project team met in June 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda to connect regarding preliminary project findings and to conduct a high-level invited stakeholder meeting of gender practitioners, researchers, educators, industry managers and policymakers.

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Future of Ageing 2023: Solutions for longer lives

Submitted by Denise Reghenza... on November 19, 2023 - 16:11

With just three weeks to go, we're looking forward to a solutions-focused Future of Ageing 2023, and we're delighted to announce the winners of our open slot competition who will be presenting a range of solutions for longer lives at the conference on Thursday 7 December.

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European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems

Submitted by Mike Osborne on November 17, 2023 - 16:19

To get a sense of the European Commission’s perspective on the contribution of HEI’s to developing regional innovations systems, the attached report on ‘European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems’, may be enlightening. At the University of Glasgow, we are part of one of the Alliances, CIVIS, and I am grateful to colleagues in the that alliance for making me aware of this report, and supplying the summary below:

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Making better places: The Challenge of Social Cohesion | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on November 16, 2023 - 16:34

In the face of increasing social inequality, migration, social exclusion and declining social mobility the concept of social cohesion now features prominently in discourse about communities both in academic literature and in social policy debates, yet despite its widespread use by academics, policy-makers and public officials, it is a concept whose succinct definition remains elusive.