PASCAL cooperation

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PASCAL project partnership proposals
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SG Statutes

• AIMS ARTICLE 5.
• The Santander Group constitutes a European
  network of higher education institutions whose
  aim is to establish special academic, cultural
  and socioeconomic ties and to set up specific and
  advanced facilities as well as privileged
  channels of information and exchange.
• The Santander Group also wishes to encourage
  contacts between universities and their
  surrounding communities or regions on matters
  related to social and technological development.

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PASCAL

• PASCAL ? Place Management, Social Capital and
  Learning Regions (http//www.obs-pascal.com)
• The PASCAL International Observatory is an
  organisation with a strong panel of expert
  Associates, including OECD lead and other
  evaluators from its thematic review project
  "Supporting the contribution of HEIs to regional
  development" which embraced 14 regions across 12
  countries.
• PASCAL is administered jointly by RMIT University
  of Melbourne (Australia), Northern Illinois
  University (USA) and Glasgow University
  (Scotland).

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Partnership proposals

• PURE (PASCAL Universities Regional Engagement)
• PASCAL ALFA III proposal on Building a Framework
  for Engaged Universities in Latin America

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PURE

• A major project which seeks to map regional
  engagement of universities with their regions,
  benchmarking in specific interest areas.
• Currently, in the first cohort, some 12-16
  regions are taking part across the globe.
• PASCAL is planning another cohort to start in
  April/May 2009 and this might interest the
  Santander Group.
• Santander Group universities might assist by
  encouraging their regions to take part in the
  study and by providing experts to join review
  teams in other regions around the world.
• PASCAL Regions pay for this (currently 50,000
  (maybe a little more next year), but less outside
  the OECD).

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PURE Possible areas of work

• to monitor and compare approaches to the
  innovation system and human capacity-building
  work of universities across all strands of
  balanced social development - cultural, civil
  society, health and welfare, environmental as
  well as economic.
• to identify barriers and ways of overcoming them,
  where appropriate trying out approaches new to
  partnership and organisation successful in other
  regions
• to interrogate and use existing data more
  effectively and study the impact of university
  partnership on regional development, with
  realistic tasks and targets for university
  partnership-based regional development

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PASCAL ALFA III proposal

• Building a Framework for Engaged Universities in
  Latin America
• to develop a network that will help universities
  in Latin America to
• examine their interactions with their local
  businesses, government and civic society, and
• make structural changes that enable better
  engagement and greater impact on society

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PASCAL ALFA III objectives

• To identify the incentives and the structural
  barriers that influence the degree of engagement
  that universities have with their regional
  stakeholders and communities
• To create a network of universities that exchange
  experiences and collaborate on learning how to
  engage with their regions.
• To support the development of pilot projects
• To develop benchmarking between universities in
  the field of engagement through the creation of
  new tools and their implementation on a
  trans-national basis

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PASCAL ALFA III approach

• The project seeks to draw upon previous work in
  Europe, synthesise key findings into tools, and
  to use these as the basis of dialogue with
  universities in Latin America to examine and
  overcome the barriers to better engagement with
  regional communities.
• The consortium will draw upon European expertise
  in university engagement and regional
  development.
• This will be combined with a network of experts
  from Latin American universities with experience
  of studying regional engagement and university
  management, and who will collaborate in the
  development of the tools and methodologies, but
  will also implement them for universities in
  their respective countries.

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PASCAL ALFA III a 3 years project

• YEAR 1 development of methodologies,
  benchmarking tools, and initial analysis of the
  situation in the participant countries regarding
  objectives, barriers and approaches to engagement
  with society.
• YEAR 2 implementing the benchmarking using the
  developed tools and with some exchange of staff
  between the Latin American countries.
• YEAR 3 introduce pilot projects to support
  change management within the universities and the
  development of policy recommendations to
  governments and other stakeholders. There will
  also be dissemination events across Latin America
  and in Europe. .

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PASCAL ALFA III the partnership

• In Latin America PASCAL needs at least 12
  partners in 12 different countries. They have a
  number of links, but some gaps, that the
  Santander Group might assist us to fill.
• In each case they should be a university and a
  team with a research capacity and the rector or
  vice rector of the university.
• The university has to have an objective to
  enhance its engagement with its local community
  and a willingness to undertake self analysis and
  to develop some pilot activity.

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PASCAL ALFA III funding

• Funding for each partner would be of the order of
  50,000 Euros per year for the three years,
  150,000 in total.
• It would cover between 50 and 80 of the total
  eligible costs.
• Matching funds can come from the organisation
  itself or from partners in their own country.

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Are we (SANLAT) interested?

• If YES, we should notify PASCAL before the 15
  December 2008. .
• There will be a virtual seminar on Thursday 14th
  January 2009 from 1500 1700 GMT by web-based
  conference.
• There will also be a face-to-face roundtable in
  Vancouver at the PASCAL conference from 18-20 May
  2009 for those who can make it. For those who
  can't there will be web-based video-conference
  access.

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Are we (SANLAT) interested?
If you find this interesting, we could discuss
all this today at the SANLAT meeting in Brussels,
on the 2nd December 2008. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION! Victor de KosinskySG Secretary
General