Big Tent Communique VI. Local identities and global citizenship: A message from Catania and challenges for universities

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2015-11-04

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Hall, Budd

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The Big Tent is a group of national, regional and global networks that share a focus on community-university engagement and social responsibility of higher education and have agreed to issue statements from time to time. The first Big Tent communique on community university engagement, had a focus on North-South cooperation and was issued in 2010. This new communique arose from thinking about the location of Sicily of the Pascal International Observatory Annual Conference on 7-9 October 2015 in Catania 'on the frontier of fortress Europe'. Its theme was how cities and their regions are connected to their universities at strategic frontiers.

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Community-University engagement, Global citizenship, Local identity, Participatory citizenship

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