An authentic learning environment full of meaningful ‘pearls of inspiration’ for initiators, students and education experts. Working paper 2009.

Background As the level of government closest to citizens and the real economy, local and regional authorities have an important role in tackling the severe impact of the current economic crisis. The double pressures of decreasing public revenue and increasing demand for services, however, call for more …

This paper will focus on important “soft” factors of regional innovation systems, namely learning, network development and network actors within a regional context. Their importance will be explored based on an extensive review of studies and worldwide good practice regions in Welter and Kolb (2006), …

Agriculture is the main driver of the economy and the source of living for the majority of the population in Ethiopia. However, its performance has been poor and unable to feed the ever increasing population. Thus there is a need to change this trend and ensure the food security of the population. Agricultural …

This paper reports on the EU-project 'Professionally Networking Education and Teacher Training' (PRONETT). The key objective of the PRONETT project (2001-2004) is to develop a regional and cross national learning community of pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators supported by webbased resources …