Workshops

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Results of the Interactive Workshop on Defining Regional Prosperity - PASCAL 2010 Conference, Botswana

Submitted by Bob Gleeson on January 12, 2011 - 20:25

Notes from the Interactive Workshop on Defining Regional Prosperity “Engaged Universities and Learning Cities-Regions” at the 9th PASCAL International Observatory Conference Organized by the University of Botswana December 2, 2010

Workshop Facilitators:

Robert E. Gleeson, Ph.D., Northern Illinois University and PASCAL

Diana Robinson, Northern Illinois University and PASCAL

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PRIA Field School in India in August 2011

Submitted by Mike Osborne on January 12, 2011 - 10:32
Aug 2 2011
Aug 30 2011
Asia/Calcutta
Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
PRIA, 42, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi
India

Our partners in the Big Tent, PRIA (Participatory Research in Asia) together with the University of Victoria are organising a Field School in India in August 2011 that may be of interest to colleagues.

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Human Development and the Transformation of the Academy

Submitted by Jennifer Groce on January 4, 2011 - 09:40

The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) in Development Education at the University of South Africa (UNISA) held a six-day retreat in December in Pretoria titled ‘Human Development and the Transformation of the Academy’.

Human Development retrat - Botswana 2010

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Brief report on the half-day PURE working session within the Gabarone Conference

Submitted by Chris Duke on December 14, 2010 - 11:38

The whole of the final morning of the PASCAL International Conference in Gabarone was given over to a consideration of the work of the PASCAL Universities and Regional Engagement (PURE) Project.

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Knowledge Cities Summit

Submitted by Bruce Wilson on November 22, 2010 - 12:17

The Knowledge Cities Summit, held in Melbourne last week, was an important opportunity for academics, government and business to talk with each other about the emerging features of economic and social development, and the ways in which different kinds of knowledge contribute. As the ‘new club of Paris’ would say, it is the challenge of developing with the unlimited resources which knowledge offers.

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Workshop 1 - Glasgow

Submitted by Steve Rubin on March 1, 2009 - 14:04

Details of the outcomes of this workshop are found in Briefing Paper 3 elsewhere in this site.  Presentations from the workshop and some photos are attached below.

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