The web site, http://bit.ly/J0qaqG is open for anyone who wants to contribute to the global communique on Higher Education and Sustainability.
The statement will be taken to Rio + 20 and circulated in policy circles in Europe and elsewhere.
Participation is open to anyone until today 6 pm, Germany time.
Check it out, spread the word and don’t miss out.
Thanks so much

Nicola Buckley, Cambridge University
Nirmala Lall, University of Victoria
Norbert Steinhaus, Living Knowledge Networks
Budd Hall, Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research

For “Big Tent” Group of international networks

You can follow us for the 5th Living Knowledge conference on Twitter: #LK5

Send messages and comments via e-mail to livingknowledge@wilabonn.de

Again an amazing group  with an interesting variety of  backgrounds coming from many different countries joined us for the Summer School. The Summer School is an introductory workshop to the upcoming Living Knowledge conference in Bonn. You can follow the discussions in the conference’s plenaries via live stream.

Latest issue of  ’Living Knowledge Newsletter’ (March 2012)
There is an archive of the Living Knowledge newsletters

In the run-up of the Living Knowledge Conference there will be a Pre-Conference „Summer School“ on Science Shops, from 8-9 May 2012 on the premises of the Bonn Science Shop.

The Summer School aims specifically to those with little or no experience in, or knowledge of, Science Shops or Community-Based Research Offices. By participating in this crash course, you will be able to engage in follow-up discussions during the conference much more easily. It will also allow you to assess options for yourself to start one, should you wish to do so. The workshop will be given by Science Shop coordinators with a long experience, from The Netherlands and Germany. On the second day, colleagues from Northern-Ireland will join the team. During the following Living Knowledge Conference you can meet and talk with many more Science Shop staff from all around the world.
Places are limited, so please make sure to register early. The PERARES project, funded by the European Commission under contract FP7-244264, and the Living Knowledge Network offer this Summer School for all who are interested at the reduced rate of 50 €, which includes morning and afternoon refreshments and the lunch on Tuesday.

• More information about the Summer School and programme

Please take a look at the conference website. The programme has been updated

Registration for the 5th Living Knowledge Conference in Bonn, Germany, will open on 15 December 2011.

New Science Shop launched in Grenoble, France

With the start of the new academic year 2011, ADReCA (Association pour le Developpement d’une Recherche Citoyenne et Active ) has officially launched its science shop, called ‘L’Echop’ à Sciences’. A new website online , which will allow NGOs, scientists and students to interact. During the past five years the support of Living Knowledge and PERARES has been essential to enable this project to be realized.
The French partners are the Fondation Science Citoyenne (FSC) and there is a similar project in Lyon. In parallel the ADReCA successfully bided for funding to support research projects, via the Rhone-Alpes regional authority’s “Université Citoyenne et Solidaire” program.
Since March 2010 the ADReCA employs 2 staff, who are building a network of contacts with NGOs and scientists. In June the ADReCA, with the FSC, ran a successful two-day Permanent Dialogue workshop with 30 members of the NGO and scientific community. The conclusions were clear. NGO’s need scientific expertise and the scientific community is willing to work with NGOs but is limited in terms of time and resources for such projects. Information: www.echopa-sciences.org/

The next Science Shop Summer School will be organized in advance of the 5th Living Knowledge Conference, 8-9 May 2012 in Bonn

An instrument of dialogue to establish a pact between a plurality of actors who share its principles and are
willing to put it to work, as well as to create occasions for dialogue and cooperation is the now published The Sassari Charta for a Community-University alliance. Downloadof the charta at http://universitaterritoriosviluppo.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/chartof-sassari.pdf