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This manual on Institutionalizing Community University Research Partnerships is both a handy reference and a ready tool-kit for university and college administrators interested in establishing and improving Community University Research Partnerships initiatives in their institutions.

"Community-based research (CBR) refers to collaborative investigation by academics and non-academic community members that fosters positive change on a local level. Despite recent trends toward engaged scholarship, few publications demonstrate how to effectively integrate CBR into academic course work or take advantage of its potential for achieving community change. Community-Based Research: Teaching for Community Impact fills these gaps by providing: * An overview of language and methods used by professionals engaged in CBR * A framework for orienting CBR toward concrete community outcomes * Effective ways to integrate CBR into course content, student-driven projects, and initiatives spanning disciplines, curricula, campuses and countries * Lessons learned in working toward positive outcomes for students and in communities This text is designed for faculty, graduate students, service-learning and other engaged learning and scholarship practitioners, alliance members, special interest groups, and organizations that desire to strengthen student learning and utilize research for improvement in their communities. "

"TRANSIT researchers have just completed eight new case studies on transnational social innovation networks, bringing the total number of studied networks to 20 including 40 local manifestations spread across Europe and Latin America. Summary reports of the case studies are now online, but the full reports can be accessed directly through the respective authors until they are uploaded soon. Studied networks include: Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) International Co-operative Association La Via Campensina Living Labs Participatory Budgeting Seed Exchange Movement Shareable - Sharing Cities Slow Food "

Based at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education is co-directed by Dr. Budd L Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon. The UNESCO Chair supports North-South-South and South-South partnerships that build on and enhance the emerging consensus in knowledge democracy. It strengthens recent collaboration between the Higher Education section in UNESCO, the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Global Alliance on Community University Engagement and other regional and global networks. Hall and Tandon recently published a report about the last four very productive years (2012-2016) of UNESCO Chair activities in knowledge production and mobilization, policy advocacy and training in CBR. Source: infolettre Living Knowledge 52, april 2016

"Higher education is disintegrating under misguided neo-liberal reforms. Could co-operative universities, member-run and member-led, be the answer?"

"In the wake of the unrest in Baltimore this April, officials at Johns Hopkins University announced they would hire 300 Baltimore youth-up from 100 the previous year-for the city's annual summer jobs program. ­The youth, who range in age from 15 to 21, will work at the university, the university's hospital and the university's health system this summer."

"This paper examines the tensions, and paradoxes related to open innovation taking place in living labs. Although the open innovation model is spreading rapidly and living labs are an increasingly popular way to accelerate innovation processes, they are under researched. There is a substantial need for more research on innovation mechanism in living labs. This study focuses on three main classes of tensions that characterize open innovation in living labs: management, users, and the way of working. The suggested categorization of tensions into paradoxes is based on a theory review and an empirical analysis of 26 living labs in four countries. This paper proposes that living labs foster emergence of paradoxical tensions and act as a mechanism to reorganize paradoxical tensions. The paper concludes with theoretical and managerial implications and suggests directions for future research. "

Dans ce numéro 2015 de l'annuaire sur l'innovation ouverte de la Commission européenne, les thèmes vont de l'écosystème européen d'innovation et sa gouvernance jusqu'à plusieurs cas concrets portant sur la manière adoptée dans l'innovation ouverte pour améliorer la qualité de vie, les conditions d'emploi et la croissance économique. Par exemple, les universitaires devront repositionner leur travail en ce qui concerne les écosystèmes d'innovation ouverte. Leur nouveau rôle suppose également de nouvelles approches en matière de propriété intellectuelle et en matière de réseautage avec les autres acteurs du milieu. Les établissements universitaires devront mettre au point de nouveaux modes de fonctionnement qui devront aller au-delà des modes actuels qui consistent à être seulement des fournisseurs de connaissances scientifiques. Un autre article se penche sur les écosystèmes d'innovation ouverte des communautés de pratique. Les travaux se concentrent sur les nouveaux rôles du secteur public en suivant l'exemple du concept danois de MindLab. Ce lien mène à un site qui n'est peut-être pas soumis au standard gouvernemental sur l'accessibilité., c'est-à-dire des unités en matière d'innovation intergouvernementale, lequel concept nécessite la participation des citoyens et des entreprises pour relever les défis sociétaux. L'approche allemande qui consiste à entretenir des laboratoires d'innovation en dehors des structures gouvernementales ainsi que la notion de villes intelligentes font également l'objet de discussions. Finalement, l'ensemble des articles démontre l'importance de prendre une pause et d'avoir le courage de regarder de nouvelles approches disruptives, de les expérimenter, même de jouer avec elles. En matière d'innovation, jouer est un concept important, comme le sont la curiosité et le courage. Source: RepèrES RSTI - 8 juin 2015

New courses on co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan will offer two courses focusing on co-operatives as part of its program leading to a Certificate in social economy and co-operatives. The courses are entitled Co-operatives in the New Economy: Institutions, Policy, and Sustainability which will be given by Professor Brett Fairbairn and Co-operative Governance and Leadership in Action will be available in the fall semester 2015. Source: Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, 4 juin

"RADIUS SFU and Ecotrust Canada have committed the next three years to stimulating community economic development in Vancouver's inner city. RADIUS (RADical Ideals Useful to Society) is a social innovation lab and venture incubator based at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business. Formed to help SFU and BC step forward as leaders in building the New Economy, RADIUS's mandate is to strengthen impact-focused businesses and the ecosystem that supports them, develop and test new ideas for an economy that prioritizes people and planet, and build a pipeline of emerging social economy leaders."

Le mois dernier, le Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee. Ce lien mène à un site qui n'est peut-être pas soumis au standard gouvernemental sur l'accessibilité. (PEAC) a remis au recteur de l'université de Princeton un rapport portant sur l'entrepreneuriat. Le PEAC recommandait un vaste ensemble d'actions à court et à long terme pour renforcer l'entrepreneuriat à la fois sur le campus et parmi les membres de la communauté universitaire de façon à appuyer les engagements de l'établissement envers l'éducation dans les arts libéraux, la recherche et les services publics. Les recommandations comprennent : la création d'un conseil de l'entrepreneuriat; l'ouverture d'un incubateur sur le campus; l'établissement d'un programme de certificat de premier cycle universitaire portant sur le domaine en question; la mise en valeur d'un écosystème entrepreneurial, notamment par la mise sur pied d'un programme de financement. Source: http://www.economie.gouv.qc.ca/objectifs/informer/reperes-rsti/reperes-rsti-actualites/reperes-rsti-actualites-detail/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=17672&tx_ttnews[cat]=&cHash=5fc212085617d8326cd4de03a6cc5291

"Occuper une position dans un réseau qui donne aux chercheurs un certain contrôle sur la circulation des connaissances et de l'information dans la communauté scientifique permettra non seulement aux chercheurs d'avoir accès à un plus grand nombre de connaissances, mais aussi de leur offrir un plus grand nombre de possibilités de financement. "

D'après une étude britannique, les exercices de mesure de rendement des universités adoptent une vision trop étroite au sujet du transfert de connaissances, et, ainsi, ils se limitent à une petite gamme d'activités.

Le Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) offre ce guide comme une ressource aux chercheurs, aux praticiens, aux dirigeants de tous les secteurs et aux citoyens touchés par la question, c'est-à-dire tous ceux qui pourraient participer à un laboratoire portant sur l'innovation sociale. Résumé: http://www.economie.gouv.qc.ca/objectifs/informer/reperes-rsti/reperes-rsti-publications/reperes-rsti-publications-detail/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=17760&cHash=241bc1ffcfb4c60375aae2a17f2eaa18

Le Northern Ontario Research, Development, Ideas and Knowledge Institute (NORDIK), aux côtés de l'Université d'Algoma et l'Université de Toronto, lance un projet pilote baptisé 'Les jeunes autochtones vivant en milieu urbain : les acteurs du changement' dont l'objectif est d'encourager les jeunes autochtones à devenir des acteurs du changement dans l'économie sociale. Source: E-Bulletin AIU, vol. 12, n.6 juillet-août 2015

This book outlines a number of important trends, challenges and approaches associated with how research partnerships are initiated, supported, and evaluated through a comparative study of different types of institutional arrangements. This includes a detailed overview of a global survey administered in over fifty countries and four languages, and twelve country case studies demonstrating strong institutional and policy support for Community University Research Partnerships (CURP)

"Some of the most creative solutions to the wicked challenges our nation faces are actually being co-produced by alliances of citizens and academics. Working quietly, often for many years, community-campus partnerships from east to west are powerful incubators of ideas and action"

Yaffle is a user-driven community that connects the innovators of Newfoundland & Labrador with the knowledge and expertise of Memorial University.

"Research-practice partnerships strengthen educational systems. When researchers and district leaders develop long-term collaborations, they leverage research to address persistent problems of practice and policy."

"Duane Elverum and Janet Moore are the co-founders and co-directors of CityStudio, an experimentation and innovation hub for the City of Vancouver where staff, students and community members design and execute projects that improve the city"