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.

Enjoy the new issue of the Living Knowledge Magazine, titled ‘Re-Imagining Research Relationships’. You can download the magazine here.
If you want a free printed copy of this issue and haven’t subscribed for the magazine yet, please send a message to the International Science Shop Contact Point.

You can find an archive of the Living Knowledge Magazines and Newsletters here.

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 “Summer School” and three Field Trips.

From 8-9 May 2012 runs the Summer School on Science Shops on the premises of the Bonn Science Shop. Target groups are scientists, science communicators, community leaders, NGO representatives, graduate students, PhD students, and others who are interested in setting up a Science Shop or starting Community-Based Research projects. The Summer School aims specifically to those with little or no experience in, or knowledge of Science Shops or Community-Based Research. By participating in this crash course, you will be able to engage in follow-up discussions during the conference much more easily.
The workshop will be given by Science Shop coordinators with a long experience, from The Nether-lands 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 offer this Summer School for all who are interested at the reduced rate of 50,00 € which includes morning and after-noon refreshments and the lunch on Tuesday.

• Programme Summer School on Science Shops

For those arrive early for the conference or those who need to bridge the gap between summer school and conference we invite you to join one of three Field Trips:

• Kommern: Open-Air Museum/Rhenish State Museum of Folklore  
• NaturGut Ophoven: Bonn Science Shop cooperation partner in several environmental education activities
• International Garden Bonn, ‘Grüne Spielstadt: A Bonn Science Shop community project

All field trips are free of charge and will be accompanied. A guided tour in English is included. Please note: the offer is valid only for the registered conference participants.

• Information about the Field Trips

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

We are delighted to announce a limited financial subsidy to help Community Members / NGOs, Post Doctoral Fellows and Graduate Students to attend the 5th Living Knowledge Conference (10-12 May 2012) in Bonn.

Please note that the size of this fund is small and as a result we will not be able to support a large number of applicants. If your application is not accepted the insufficiency of the funds is the primarily reason why.
Under circumstance, we believe the scholarship fund provides an invaluable opportunity for the LK supporters to “make connections that count.”

 
What Does the Scholarship Fund Offer?

The scholarship fund will cover the conference registration fee (includes conference lunches and conference dinner, accommodation (max. 3 nights) at the conference venue). We are not able to provide assistance to cover travel costs, incidental and outside the conference meals.

The deadline for the Scholarship Application is March 15th, 2012.
The notices of the outcomes will be announced on March 20th, 2012. Successful applicants will be asked to confirm whether or not they will accept the offer by the March 30th final deadline.

Application Procedures

1. Please complete and the applicant contact information and application statements. The application must be received by March 15, 2012.
2. All applications received by March 15, 2012 will be reviewed by a Scholarship Committee. Applicants will be notified by March 20, 2012.
3. Applicants who have been awarded a scholarship must confirm if they accept the scholarship by March 30th, 2012 and must complete their Conference Registration no later than April 8th, 2012.

No extension will be granted if these deadlines are missed.

To Scholarship Application Form

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

In June 2011 started the Sozialwissenschaftsladen (Social Science Shop), a non-profit-organisation
based in Berlin, Germany, that aims at the mediation between science and society. It tries to strengthen community oriented research and education at Universities and to disseminate interesting societal topics by offering seminars and workshops, writing papers and evaluations, conceptualising own projects and realizing them in cooperation with different partners. The interdisciplinary team (political science, sociology, economy, pedagogy and cultural science) is focussed on the topics: participative research methods, empirical research methods, social, political and cultural change related to the European
Union, ethnicity and migration and education, employment and labour market.
Contact: Sabine Schwirner: schwirner@sozialwissenschaftsladen.de; Serttas Dündar: duendar@sozialwissenschaftsladen.de, www.sozialwissenschaftsladen.de (English version of the website is coming soon)