Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

Connecting Urban and Rural Learning InitiativesKEY AIM: This network will examine the distinctive learning needs of rural, and remote communities to find ways in which learning city initiatives and linkages to urban communities can support learning development and sustainable community building, that addresses the particularity of smaller places.

This will include consideration of such topics as:                    

  1. Issues pertaining to Learning to Survive – coping with the disruption caused by COVID-19, climate change, health, technological and other challenges.
  2. Strategies that focus on promoting employment, entrepreneurship, and small business start-ups and development;
  3. Issues pertaining to agriculture, food production, and environmental sustainability;
  4. Measures to combat changing demographics due to COVID-19 migration.

Final topics to be decided by the members.

For the purposes of this program ‘rural and remote’ encompasses all areas outside major cities within a national country (See: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW] (2019), "Rural and Remote Australians". Retrieved 4 May 2020 from https://www.aihw.gov.au/rural-health-rrma-classification).

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Network Blogs

Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives - Opportunities and Challenges

Posted May 30, 2014 - 13:08 by Josef Konvitz

Urbanisation has been a powerful force for knowledge and growth since well before the industrial revolution.  As cities have grown bigger, their relationships with rural areas have changed – as have the needs of rural areas.  Historically, people in rural areas did not have the same educational opportunities as people in cities.

Stories from UNESCO’s GNLC members (Canning, Wyndham, Australia and Phayao, Thailand) - Building Inclusive and Sustainable Learning Partnerships

Posted October 1, 2023 - 14:35 by Leone Wheeler
Oct 4 2023 15:00
Oct 4 2023 16:30
Australia/Melbourne
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Australia  Australia
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Leone Wheeler
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Diane Tabbagh
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Sharyn Wheatcroft
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Raul Valdes-Cotera
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Robbie Guevara

We are very pleased to announce a webinar being held on 4 October 2023 at 1500 (AEDT) that features stories from UNESCO’s GNLC members (Canning, Wyndham, Australia and Phayao, Thailand) and is entitled Building Inclusive and Sustainable Learning Partnerships. Speakers include a key contributor to PASCAL's Learning Cities Network, and PASCAL Director for Australia, Robbie Guevara. Further details are attached.

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

Posted March 28, 2022 - 11:48 by Leone Wheeler

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.

Learning from Men’s Sheds: Reflecting on the movement’s Australian origins, global trajectories & its radical implications for learning in the community - 24 March

Posted March 15, 2022 - 13:09 by Rob Mark
Mar 24 2022 11:00
Europe/London
*** ONLINE WEBINAR ***
PASCAL Urban Rural LCN meeting
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom  United Kingdom

The next meeting or the Urban-Rural Learning Initiative LCN will feature a presentation by Professor Barry Golding about diversifying the Men's Sheds movement. Barry will speak at the commencement of our meeting and others are welcome to join. 

The presentation will be during the first part of the meeting, followed by opportunities for questions. Details are as follows:

Learning from Men’s Sheds: Reflecting on the movement’s Australian origins, global trajectories & its radical implications for learning in the community

Meeting Notes: Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives - 23 September 2021

Posted October 5, 2021 - 13:44 by Leone Wheeler

The highlight of the 6th meeting of the Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives Network within PASCAL’s Learning Cities Networks (LCN) on 23 September was a presentation about the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs (IIRA): building the capacity of community leaders and policy makers.

Next meeting of the Connecting Rural and Urban Learning Initiatives (LCN) - 23 September, 2021

Posted September 14, 2021 - 13:04 by Leone Wheeler
Sep 23 2021 09:30
Sep 23 2021 12:30
Australia/Melbourne
*** ONLINE MEETING ***
Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs
Macomb
United States  United States

The sixth meeting of the Connecting Rural and Urban Learning Initiatives ( a PASCAL LCN network) will be held online on Thursday 23 September, 2021, starting at 9.30 pm (AEST); 12.30 pm (BST). The topic is: Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs: building the capacity of community leaders and policy makers.

Meeting Notes | Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives - 4 May, 2021

Posted May 11, 2021 - 11:20 by Leone Wheeler

The third meeting of the Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives featured a presentation from Professor Idowu Biao, Professor of Lifelong Learning, Université d’Abomey Calavi, Benin, about Rural-Urban Migration and its Implication for Learning in Cities: the Case Study of Benin.

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Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives - Meeting Notes: 30 March 2021

Posted April 6, 2021 - 10:51 by Leone Wheeler

The second meeting of the Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives featured a presentation from Mr Max Eastcott from Gwydir Shire; the introduction of the region of Zelva in Belarus and the sharing of ideas and resources.

Meeting Notes | Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

Posted March 4, 2021 - 16:48 by Leone Wheeler

This was the inaugural meeting of the network. The first matter discussed was the aim of the network and suggested topics (see http://lcn.pascalobservatory.org/networks/urban-rural).

There was a general discussion about the suggested topics. The two topics that were of most interest to follow up on were:

  1. Regional Economic Development: Strategies that focus on promoting employment, entrepreneurship, and small business start-ups and development, and
  2. Measures to combat changing demographics due to COVID-19 migration.

Sustainable Futures in Africa (SFA) Network

Posted September 14, 2018 - 19:40 by Mia Perry

We are pleased to announce that we have secured almost £100,000 to continue the work of the Sustainable Futures in Africa (SFA) Network from funding allocated to the University of Glasgow from the Scottish Funding Council to support work within the Global Challenges Research Fund. SFA is an interdisciplinary collective established in 2016 bringing together researchers, educators, and communities across 4 African countries and the UK.

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