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  1. PASCAL soon to launch its new International Exchanges project
  2. I've now heard that the State of Victoria have confirmed their membership of PASCAL for 2 more years.
  3. PASCAL has been succesful in funding bids to the EU. More on the website soon.
  4. Just reading the new hot topic paper from Jarl Bengtsson on the PASCAL website. John
  5. We are back from a very successful conference in Vancouver. Congratulations to Hans, Garnet and Maxine and thanks to UBC.
  6. Benchmarking - Jarl - take to OECD, but we need serious comments from regions. We asked for your specific feedback here to adapt.
  7. Regional tool - an independent group representing different interests could be brought together to complete regional tool, but dangers
  8. Benchmarking - Anglo-centric bias?
  9. Benchmarking. How? Lock 8 people in a room for a day. Don't throw away the key
  10. Benchmarking 4 - run HEI tool and regional tool in parallel in each region and compare
  11. Benchmarking 3 - at PURE level - look at good practice and possible transferability
  12. Benchmarking 1 - Map scores across all 8 themes - Spider diagram. 2 look at individual contribution of each universities
  13. Comment Balazs - importance of dialogue between relevant bodies
  14. Questions - Peter - Who sets the policies for universities? Not within control of regional gov in some parts of the world - good or bad?
  15. Questions - Bruce - What is the place and role of regional and municipal authorities in Illinois? Over 6000 entities!!!
  16. Questions - Norman - Where lies the Learning Region? - separate from or part of PURE
  17. Key issues 5 - importance of being data driven, and of strong research model
  18. Key Issues 4 - credible CDGs, real engagement of communities, institutional buy-in at highest level,link to existing major initatives
  19. Key issues 3 - contribution to improving relationships, better co-ordination between actors, increases internal awareness of initiatives
  20. Key issues 2 - inclusion of all sectors (Short-cycle), need to articulate teminology (Glossary)