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Dear Knowledge Commons colleagues,

A request for proposals (RFP) has been released for a host for the 2013 CU Expo conference.  CU Expo is a Canadian-led international conference designed to showcase exemplars in community-university partnerships worldwide. It explores and introduces creative ways of strengthening local communities by using community-based research and other types of community-university collaborations.  The RFP is available online at…

I was working on this project last year and the Report is now published as a Working Paper for Canadian Partnerships at the International Development Research Centre.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome!

http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/46120/1/132609.pdf

Comments on the launch of Fragoso, Kurantowicz and Lucio-Villegas (eds) Between Global and Local: Adult Learning and Development

Alberto Melo, the great Portuguese adult educator and scholar and also our friend and mentor says it powerfully and eloquently in one of the lines from his chapter in this important new book edited by Antonio Fragoso from Portugal, Ewa Kurantowicz from Poland, and Emilio Lucio-Villegas…

Do you have products from community-based participatory research, service-learning or other community-engaged projects focused on Aboriginal and Indigenous Health that are in forms  other than journal articles? Do you have

expertise in Aboriginal and Indigenous Health and an interest in helping to advance knowledge and disseminate practical resources that communities can use to promote health?

In partnership with the Native Research Network, CES4Health.info is publishing…

I work as knowledge management specialist in a multilateral financial institute and I deal with assignment related to workplace learning and staff development

I read an article on TrainingZone (Dohert.y, 2006). , and I support the following point

Training managers shouldn’t be only concerned of delivering training sessions on demd but they need to…

"All Means All": Social Movement Learning and the Inclusion Movement

Budd and Richard Hall[1]

"Change takes place on a level beyond the personal, but can't grow without the individual" Richard Hall

            Two weeks ago, our thoughts about social movement learning would have been expressed quite differently.  A phone call from Budd's younger brother Rick changed the way that they both feel…

The results of community-based participatory research and other forms of community-engaged scholarship (CES) are often disseminated through diverse products such as educational videos, policy briefs, resource guides, toolkits and photovoice exhibits.  CES also often leads to the development of tools that can assist others in implementing or adapting an intervention or project in their communities, such as assessment instruments, instructional manuals and partnership agreements. …

Towards a Knowledge Democracy Movement: 'Antyodaya ' and Higher Education

            In 2011, I want to make visible stories about our universities, communities and social movements creating and using knowledge together in new ways that will support organising for change and creating space for collective action for a more just, sustainable, inclusive and joyful world.  I want to see stories how our collective capacities to 'name the world' as…

The results of community-based participato

ry research and other forms of community-engaged scholarship (CES) are often disseminated through diverse products such as educational videos, policy briefs, resource guides, toolkits and photovoice exhibits.  CES also often leads to the development of tools that can assist others in implementing or adapting an intervention or project in their communities, such as assessment instruments, instructional manuals and partnership agreements. …

Knowledge Commons friends,

Registration is now OPEN for CU Expo, Community-University Partnerships: From Global Perspectives to Local Action," May 10-14, 2011 in Waterloo Region, ON.  Early bird rates end on March 1.  Also, members of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health can register at a 20% discount (to join CCPH, visit http://www.ccph.info). 

Learn more about CU Expo and register today at…

The NCE-KM initiative supports networking and collaboration among well-established research teams and receptor communities to further the application and mobilization of knowledge. The NCE-KM initiative is intended to support national multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral networks in applying and mobilizing the results of world-class…