PASCAL Members and Associates are engaged in a wide variety of activities which contribute in different ways to the dialogue between policy and research in its fields of interest.      Read here about the latest developments.

The GOODUEP project

The GOODUEP project is financed under the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. Aiming to analyse UEP in diverse European contexts, partners from six countries with different higher education systems and industrial structures work in this project. Researchers from the Technical University of Valencia in Spain who coordinate the project and from the University of Kassel in Germany, the National Research Council in Italy, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland and the Institute of Education, University of London in the United Kingdom are studying the UEP in Europe.

The project specifically has develop national reports regarding national policies, funding and general structures of UEPs in each participant country; has mapped different types of UEPs currently developed in European universities; has develop an analytical framework for analysing UEP governance, based on key indicators to assess and benchmark UEP activities; and has study in depth UEP case studies regarded as having good practices.

A remarkable aspect of this project is that it considers a broad range of UEP including those related to research valorisation as well as to teaching-learning services. Likewise, it analyses short-term partnerships as well as long-term strategic ones. Its approach towards the set of enterprises involved in partnerships is also comprehensive, considering them regardless their size, sector or ownership. This open perspective is allowing researchers to develop an inclusive wide-ranging analysis on UEP in Europe.

GOODUEP is currently in the final stage and the results will be presented in Valencia, 26th-27th of November (see

www.gooduep.eu

New publication

NIACE, The National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education in the UK, has agreed to publish an edited collection of papers drawn from the PASCAL annual conferences in Pecs in 2007 and Limerick in 2008, and the PENR3L project workshops.   The book, edited by Associate Norman Longworth and Co-Director Mike Osborne, will be available in the summer of 2010, by the time of the 2010 PASCAL conference in Ostersund, Sweden.

This will be the 4th book in the PASCAL series with NIACE.   It includes chapters by PASCAL Associates Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, INETI, Portugal, Steve Garlick University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia and Wolfgang Jutte University of Beilefeld, Germany. It also includes a number of chapters from PASCAL member regions and universities, including Jozsef Pola and Attila Pavlovics of the City Council of Pecs, Roberta Piazza at the University of Catania, Italy and Viktor Koska at the University of Zagreb.

A similar volume is planned based on papers from the recent PASCAL Conference in Vancouver in May 2009. 

Special Edition of European Journal of Education (EJE)

A special edition of EJE, to be edited by Osborne and Longworth is based on the output from the PASCAL European Network of Lifelong learning Regions project (PENR3L) and will be published in 2010.   Contributions will be from the partners in the project and associates and member universities and regions. These include Palmira Juceviciene, Kaunus University, Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, INETI, Portugal, Ingunn Sandaker and Britt Anderson, Buskerud University College, Norway, Roberta Piazza, University of Catania, Italy, Balazs Nemeth, University of OPecs, Hungary and Jutta Thinesse-Demel, German Learning Regions Network.