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Spotlight on Education and Learning from Urbanet

Submitted by Susan Kelly on January 31, 2022 - 11:16

The latest issue of the Urbanet newsletter which is a Spotlight on Education and Learning we hope will be of interest to PASCAL subscribers. Urbanet is a product of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

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16th PASCAL International Observatory Conference Learning and crises: Future-proofing city responses 24-26 October 2022, Tampere University

Submitted by Jari Stenvall on January 18, 2022 - 12:58
Oct 24 2022
Oct 26 2022
Europe/Helsinki
*** FACE-TO-FACE and VIRTUAL EVENT ***
Tampere University
Tampere
Finland  Finland

The PASCAL Observatory is delighted to announce its plans for the 16th PASCAL International Conference to be co-organised and hosted by Tampere University, Finland from 24-26 October 2022, and offer in both face-to-face and virtual mode.

The main theme of the conference is the responses made by cities and regions, and their citizens, in their path to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PASCAL participation in the Membership Jury for the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC)

Submitted by Susan Kelly on January 18, 2022 - 11:49

Following the Introductory Meeting of the Membership Jury for the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, we are pleased to announce that PASCAL Board member and convenor of PASCAL’s, Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives, Learning City Network, Dr Leone Wheeler has been elected as chairperson of the jury.

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Finnish Professor of the Year 2022 - PASCAL Associate, Professor Jari Stenvall

Submitted by Ilpo Laitinen on January 18, 2022 - 08:50

We are delighted to report that The Finnish Union of University Professors has chosen our friend and colleague professor Jari Stenvall, who is a professor of administrative science at Tampere University and a PASCAL Associate, as the Professor of the Year 2022. The nomination was announced at the Union’s Communicatio Academica event on Thursday, January 13, 2022, in Turku. The award amount of the Professor of the Year is €20,000. 

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Save the Date! Urban-Rural Linkage Webinar in preparation of the 9th Session of the Africities Summit on 21st January 3-4:45pm EAT

Submitted by Leone Wheeler on January 18, 2022 - 07:14
Jan 21 2022 15:00
Jan 21 2022 16:45
Africa/Nairobi
*** ONLINE WEBINAR ***
Nairobi
Kenya  Kenya

UN-Habitat and UCLGA are undertaking a series of dialogue on the issue of URL towards Africities summit, that will bring together more than 5000 representatives of local governments in Kisumu in May 2022. The overall purpose of the dialogue is to review policies and institutional frameworks supporting the integration of rural and urban continuum and its impact to establishing the foundation for local economic development and its’ ability to connect markets and systems of cities.