Learning Cities 2030

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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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Less than 10 days to go to submit your proposal ¦ PASCAL Conference 2022 - Tampere - 20-22 June

Submitted by Mike Osborne on March 8, 2022 - 10:29

We remind you that there is a call for papers with a deadline of 17 March, 2022. So if you have not yet submitted your proposal, we encourage you to do so and we look forward to meeting you, either in Tampere, or virtually.

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Invitation - North American Alliance of Learning Cities (NAALC) meeting on March 31

Submitted by Annalisa Raymer on March 7, 2022 - 08:46

You are warmly welcomed to the next meeting of the North American Alliance of Learning Cities on March 31.  Featured presenters are Arne Carlsen, Director Emeritus of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and Denis Barrett, Co-ordinator, Cork Learning City and the Irish Network of Learning Cities.

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The final report on the 2021 Global Learning Festival is now available

Submitted by Diane Tabbagh on February 8, 2022 - 09:40

Another successful Global Learning Festival (GLF) has wrapped up for 2021. With over 95 live and recorded events delivered from across Australia, the USA, the U.K, Israel, Northern Ireland, Taiwan, Canada, Bangladesh, Kenya, Benin, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, and Turkey, the 2021 GLF truly represented global learning.

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The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2020

Submitted by Henrik Zipsane on February 8, 2022 - 07:32

How are museums doing in Europe? The European Museum Academy Reports on The Museum Temperature by the end of 2020. The European Museum Academy is proud to present for the third year in a row the following more subjective inside views about how museums are doing and what the museums experience as their current challenges, be it political, financial, organisational or something else.

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Museums as Agents in the New Age of Volunteering

Submitted by Henrik Zipsane on February 4, 2022 - 15:46

The drive for volunteering has many roots in and impacts on societal development. It has been acknowledged as a variety of outcomes from volunteering. When the European Union by decision in 2009 made 2011 the European Year of Volunteering the objectives were set high:

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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.

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Cities & Education 2030_IIEP latest publications

Submitted by Candy Lugaz on December 1, 2021 - 15:11

I am glad to share with you IIEP’s Policy brief on the research conducted by IIEP and partners on cities in France, as well as the survey implemented by IIEP, UIL and the Global Network of Learning cities.

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