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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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Call for papers - EUCN New Zealand Conference 2012

Announcing a call for papers for the Annual New Zealand EU Centres Network Conference to be held at Massey University, Palmerston North, 13th–14th December, 2012.

The 1st January 2013 will mark both the 40th anniversary of the 1st European enlargement and the 20th anniversary of the Single European Market. Europe itself has changed dramatically in this time. These changes have also impacted on how the rest of the world interacts with Europe and the relationships Europe has beyond its borders. This multi-disciplinary conference will use a number of key themes to investigate this phenomenon:

The Role of Universities in Promoting Lifelong Learning seminar in Hamburg, 25 May 2012

'The Role of Universities in Promoting Lifelong Learning' was the topic of a seminar in the framework of the 60th Anniversary of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg, Germany on 25 May 2012. PASCAL was delighted that its co-director, Professor Michael Osborne, was invited to be one of the speakers.

On the previous day there was a public lecture programme, which included a contribution from the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.

Special Release of English/Mayo: 'Learning with Adults'

This book is written at a time when our own field of adult education is under assault from a variety of capitalist and neoconservative forces pressuring us... to turn away from the causes of criticality, lifelong learning, and education for freedom. Rather than succumb to these pressures, we have hope that our long term goals of education for life and living can and will be accomplished alongside professional and vocational education.

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Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER) meeting in Bonn on 11 May 2012

Representatives from PASCAL, Hans Schuetze and Michael Osborne, attended the recent Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER) meeting in Bonn on 11 May 2012 following the Living Knowledge conference held in that city and during which the third Big Tent communique was presented. This communique will follow soon.

The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - May 2012

The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates, and which is a co-signatory to the September 23 2010 Communique "Enhancing North-South Cooperation in Community-University Engagement".

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14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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