CIVIL SOCIETY @ CROSSROADS was a joint initiative between CDRA (South Africa), EASUN (Tanzania), INTRAC (UK), PSO (The Netherlands), ICD (Uruguay) and PRIA (India) aimed at creating and sharing knowledge on and about civil society around the world that would be helpful to both practitioners and policy makers alike. A global synthesis document was published based on civil society stories from 16 countries.

• More information under http://www.pria.org/civil-society-at-crossroads-

Expert Conference in Prague, Thursday 23rd – Friday 24th May 2013

The EU FP7  Converge Project and Charles University Environment Centre are pleased to invite you a two day expert conference on Transdisciplinary Research for Sustianability (TDRS). The conference will be held in Prague, on May 22 to 23 inclusive.

The background to the conference is that major EU research programmes are calling for transdisciplinary research to address ‘wicked’ joined up and complex problems – particularly in the area of sustainability. Whilst there is an emphasis on the dissemination of substantive results from funded projects, there is less attention to the sharing of the experiences and lessons learnt from the project processes, problems and issues and strategies developed for dealing with these. This gathering provides an opportunity to share and reflect on issues of TDRS including methodology and management, together with an opportunity to contribute to recommendations to the ERA for the further development of research capacity on TDRS.

• More information and programme of the conference

Save the date for the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health international conference.

April 30-May 3, 2014 in Chicago.

• More information

How do local communities in the developing world envision moving towards sustainability? How do they experience inequality? How are these two things related?

“Waiting to be Heard: Preliminary Results of the 2012 Equity & Sustainability Field Hearings” is now available for viewing or download.

With 60 coauthors and based on discussions with over 2700 individuals in communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, this report provides a good snapshot of current conditions and thinking in relatively underprivileged communities.
Feedback on this on-going project is welcome

• Report: http://bit.ly/RgMzH0

Knowledge Mobilization Works recently released the report of the 2012 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum held in Ottawa, Canada on June 19-20, 2012. You may find some of the presentations and discussions of interest.

• Download of the report:
  http://www.knowledgemobilization.net/archives/2021
• June 3-4, 2013 the 2013 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum will find place at the Centre for Health Safety & Innovation in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. http://www.knowledgemobilization.net/archives/2033

The EUC (European University of Cyprus) Science shop Website is online. Some of the functions and features are the following:

• Online Application Form that allows NGOs to apply online for a project with the Science Shop
• Posts with events that EUC Science Shop is hosting
• News articles and press releases
• Recorded castings of radio stations with the science shop as a topic
• Presentations of EUC Science Shop that are available for online view (slideshare) or free to download (pdf and powerpoint)
• You will find the website under http://scienceshop.euc.ac.cy/

The CU Expo web page is live at www.cuexpo2013.ca .
The call for proposals is open with the deadline for submission  on November 15, 2012. Individuals who are interested in reviewing proposals will find more information and a survey under http://bit.ly/NNp0C0 .