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Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development - Briefing Paper 25

Submitted by Annie Tubadji on March 25, 2024 - 11:59

We are pleased to present the attached Briefing Paper 25 concerned with the work of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Faith and Spirituality. This LCN is a group of researchers, practitioners and policy makers united by the PASCAL Observatory and working jointly on topics related to faith and spirituality in learning city developments.

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17th PASCAL conference, July 4th to 6th, 2024 - New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts – Revised Dates for Abstracts

Submitted by Mike Osborne on March 8, 2024 - 11:25

Whilst we have been very pleased with the response that we have had to our call for abstracts for the 17th PASCAL conference in Taipei, a number of colleagues have requested an extension of the deadline. Therefore we are now announcing a new deadline of 1 April 2024 for further abstracts.

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New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts

Submitted by Mike Osborne on March 4, 2024 - 14:18

Dear LCN participants,

A reminder that today (4 March) is the deadline to submit abstracts to the conference in Taipei, and we hope that a number of you are able to come from the LCNs.

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Local Economies and Pandemics - new book from PASCAL Africa

Submitted by Marius Venter on December 19, 2023 - 10:41

We are pleased to make available a new book from the Centre for Local Economic Development that hosts PASCAL Africa at the University of Johannesburg.

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How I made the most of my visit to Tampere University | PASCAL Americas Director

Submitted by Radha Jagannathan on December 19, 2023 - 10:40

I recently had a productive visit to Tampere University in Finland, sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the Finland Fulbright Foundation. The contacts at Tampere University that facilitated this research visit were made possible by the PASCAL network of associates. I thank Mike Osborne for these introductions

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University leaders commit to transforming higher education institutions into lifelong learning agents

Submitted by Heribert Hinzen on December 19, 2023 - 10:39

Higher education institutions (HEIs) must evolve into agents for lifelong learning with the help of innovative institutional strategies – this was the key message of a recent international conference organized by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Shanghai Open University (SOU), ‘Promoting lifelong learning in higher education: From institutional strategies to practical implementation’. Held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, from 19 to 21 October 2023, the conference welcomed over 250 participants, including university leaders, policy-makers, higher education experts, scholars and researchers, from China and abroad.

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Special Issue of PIMA Bulletin - Climate Justice Education- November 2023

Submitted by Shirley Walters on November 23, 2023 - 11:27

A new PIMA (PASCAL International Members Association) Bulletin on Climate Justice Education is now published. This Bulletin grew out of the conversations within the PIMA Bulletin Number 48, January 2023 January 2023 Bulletin TOC | PIMA Network where we began to (re)envision relations between humans and the more-than-human world from different vantage points.

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PASCAL Asia-Pacific Center launched

Submitted by Mario Delos Reyes on November 20, 2023 - 17:09

UP Diliman (UPD) recently launched the PASCAL Regional Centre for Asia-Pacific, to be housed at the UPD School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP).

"We are confident that this collaboration will trigger innovation in education, research, and public service in the 21st century given the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world."

SURP Dean Dina C. Magnaye said.

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Swansea University and PASCAL International Observatory collaborate to host Leverhulme Lecture on Islamic pedagogical capabilities for learning cities

Submitted by Annie Tubadji on November 6, 2023 - 10:18

On Thursday, 19th October 2023, Swansea University hosted a Leverhulme Lecture titled “Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities”. The lecture was presented by Nematollah Azizi, a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow and a faculty member at the University of Kurdistan in Iran. This visit was organized by Swansea University, along the International PASCAL Observatory collaboration, where Swansea Learning City and Swansea University are active members and were happy to host Professor Azizi as their guest from their partner University of Glasgow.  The lecture by Professor Azizi aimed to explore the role of Islamic pedagogical capabilities in creating and maintaining justice-oriented learning cities.

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Community school organises first learning city conference and festival in Otelu Rosu, Romania

Submitted by Rob Mark on November 3, 2023 - 13:05

Banatean High School, Otelu Rosu, in Western Romania, Timisoara region, was the focus of a week of activities in October 2023 around the theme of learning cities and regions. The event is part of a wider ‘Schools for Learning Cities’ project involving other cities in Nocera, Umbria (Italy), Alcora (Spain), Platon (Greece) and Modiin (Israel).  The programme included a 2-day conference entitled ‘Log into the Future’ with the key themes being sustainability, digitalisation, and social inclusion.

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