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Appeal to release Sergey Priyma

Submitted by Mike Osborne on April 5, 2022 - 10:02

On 13 March 2022 [the] Russian military kidnapped the chairman of the Melitopol (Ukraine) district council Sergey Priyma. The democratically elected local politician was taken away in an unknown direction. Neither his family, nor colleagues and the community of Melitopol know where and in what condition he is.

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PASCAL Briefing Paper 20 - Learning with and from refugees: adult education to strengthen inclusive societies

Submitted by Muir Houston on April 5, 2022 - 09:33

We are pleased to offer to subscribers the lstest PASCAL Briefing Paper published jointly with the Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL),  Learning with and from refugees: adult education to strengthen inclusive societies, written by Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale and Professor Bonnie Slade.

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A Good Space is Singapore’s first co-operative to gather diverse changemakers, activists, dreamers, social entrepreneurs, charities and more

Submitted by Denise Reghenza... on April 5, 2022 - 07:35

A Good Space is a community change-maker cooperative based in Singapore, enacting activities that respond to issues or challenges with care. The key approach is to build resilience and sustainability to flourish.

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UALL ¦ New events and dates to save in your diary

Submitted by Verity Hilton on March 29, 2022 - 10:14

There are a number of events scheduled for the coming months by our partner organisations as well as our own joint conference to be held in Glasgow in June.

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Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives – Meeting Notes, 24 March 2022

Submitted by Leone Wheeler on March 28, 2022 - 10:48

The second meeting of the Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives LCN was a presentation by Professor Barry Golding AM, entitled Learning from Men’s Sheds: Reflecting on the movement’s Australian origins, global trajectories & its radical implications for learning in the community.

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Stand with Ukraine! Newsletter March 2022

Submitted by Heribert Hinzen on March 28, 2022 - 10:25

DVV International has been working with local partners to promote lifelong learning and strengthen adult learning and education (ALE) in Ukraine for over twelve years. We would therefore like to provide an insight into the work that our colleagues and civil society partners have done in recent years.

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Towards citizens enablement: A hand-up – not a hand out ¦ Professor James Powell

Submitted by James Powell on March 22, 2022 - 12:17

Following from his extensive PASCAL studies into the PUMR development, Professor James Powell has upgraded his exploration concerning academic support  for improving the adult learning of citizens throughout the world under the title Towards citizens enablement: A hand-up – not a hand out (Local Development and Society, March 13, 2022, published by Taylor and Francis 0n-line).

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Last chance speaker call out! CYW Conference 2022

Submitted by Caroline Jones on March 22, 2022 - 11:41

The Changing Your World Conference has gone fully online… and across three days.

As a result we’re reopening our call-out for speakers far and wide. We had our program pretty much full as a one day in person event – but now that we’re online across 3 days, we have more scope for concurrent sessions, and more space for speakers, who can come from anywhere across Australia – or even the world!

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News from UALL

Submitted by Verity Hilton on March 21, 2022 - 10:54

We are busy preparing for the conference in June and will shortly be sending out up to date information on how to register.

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New Briefing Paper - Connecting People and Planet for a Sustainable Future

Submitted by Peter Kearns on March 15, 2022 - 12:18

We are pleased to make available to PASCAL subscribers a further paper in the EcCoWell series by Peter Kearns, entitled, Connecting People and Planet for a Sustainable Future.

This paper examines how PASCAL EcCoWell 3 could be further developed as a path to a sustainable future in a turbulent period of disruptive change. The paper draws on the 2021 UNESCO Reimagining the Future Together report in its assessment of the critical situation confronting humanity and the planet requiring transformation of the world towards “a more just, equity, and sustainable future”.

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