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Presentation by PASCAL Director Mike Osborne at the 5th International Conference on Learning Cities

Submitted by Susan Kelly on November 2, 2021 - 14:21

A report entitled, Learning for global health in cities community resilience and the strengthening of learning cities, was written by SHLC team members Mike Osborne, Yulia Nesterova and Ramjee Bhandari as a background paper for UNESCO’s 5th International Conference on Learning Cities held in Yoensu, Republic of Korea from 27-30 October 2021.

In his presentation to the conference within the strand, Strengthening community resilience and the resilience of local learning systems, Mike Osborne summarised the key issues that emerged in the course of analysing responses from an analysis of 25 cases of city responses to COVID-19 through an educational lens.

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Learning for a better future: Perspectives on higher education, cities, business and civil society - Marius Venter and Suzanne Hattingh

Submitted by Peter Kearns on November 2, 2021 - 13:17

The Centre for Local Economic Development at the University of Johannesburg, the host of PASCAL Africa has published papers from 14th PASCAL International Conference held in Pretoria in 2017under the title, Learning for a Better Future - Perspectives on Higher Education, Cities, Business and Civil Society. The book, edited by Marius Venter and Suzanne Hattingh, provides perspectives on a range of subjects relevant to the role of learning in progressing towards a better , sustainable future across higher education, cities, business and civil society in a context of turbulent change.

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ALCN Ripples October Newsletter

Submitted by Leone Wheeler on November 1, 2021 - 14:40

This issue of Ripples features Wyndham Learning City receiving a UNESCO Learning City Award at the Fifth Conference on Learning Cities in Yeonsu (Republic of Korea) 2021; stories from our RMIT University intern students; and a climate change case study from Gwydir Learning Region.

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UNESCO learning cities commit to boosting learning for health and call on national governments to make lifelong learning a priority

Submitted by David Atchoarena on October 31, 2021 - 15:10

With the adoption of the Yeonsu Declaration at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), UNESCO learning cities from around the world pledged to place lifelong learning for health and the development of resilience at the centre of their agenda.

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Inclusive lifelong learning in cities: policies and practices for vulnerable groups

Submitted by Susan White on October 30, 2021 - 09:31

We are very pleased to report the publication of the book, Inclusive lifelong learning in cities: policies and practices for vulnerable groups, by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning with three major contributions from PASCAL colleagues:

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University Third Mission & Local Responsibility

Submitted by Giuseppe Ronsisvalle on October 29, 2021 - 16:10

I would like to share with subscribers to PASCAL our reflections from the University of Catania on University Third Mission and Local Responsibility. Our paper was recently published on both the Global and the Africa editions of University World News at this link. We welcome your comments.

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Meeting of the Alliance of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities, Joensu, 26th October 2021

Submitted by Un Shil Choi on October 27, 2021 - 07:32

In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Learning Cities in Yeon-su, Republic of Korea, we were very pleased to hold a meeting of the Alliance of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities on 26th October 2021.

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UNESCO IIEP Policy Brief | Cities and Education 2030: Research in France

Submitted by Mike Osborne on October 27, 2021 - 06:14

PASCAL subscribers will read with interest this new briefing paper from UNESCO IIEP from their Cities and Education 2030 programme. In a further phase of work, we are collaborating with IIEP through our Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities and Neighbourhood partners in Bangladesh, Philippines and Rwanda, and LCN city, Medellin.

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The UALL, SCUTREA and ESREA conferences are back in 2022

Submitted by Verity Hilton on October 23, 2021 - 13:45

We are delighted to announce that the three associations are working together to create an integrated face to face conference programme and that it will be held at the University of Glasgow and hosted by CR&DALL - please hold the date and we will release the call for papers and conference details shortly.

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Participation needed from STEM students and graduates in India, Rwanda and UK

Submitted by Emma Seddon on October 23, 2021 - 12:40

Are you a student studying a STEM subject or have you recently graduated in STEM? We want to hear from you!

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