Do you want to give the youth in your city a fair chance to flourish with their ideas and entrepreneurial drive? Do you want to support young entrepreneurs as policy makers, and institutions, without stifling them with unintended but deep-seated social prejudices, so familiar as experience, but almost invisible to the eye, as everyday barriers for youth entrepreneurial development and success?

In this posting, we report on the PASCAL EcCoWell Community Recovery Program, which was conducted from March to October 2020 with attached an extensive edited report from Peter Kearns and Denise-Reghenzani-Kearns. The programme was developed to test whether EcCoWell ideas on integration and partnership would have value in supporting community recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Five learning cities, two learning neighbourhoods, and two universities participated in the program. Short profiles of participants are given in Appendix 1.

We are delighted to report a very successful 15th PASCAL Conference, Learning Cities, Learning Societies and the Sustainable Development Goals: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice, in collaboration with the World Forum for Lifelong Learning In Gyeonggi Province, Korea.

The Conference was attended by over 500 delegates including a large international delegation from many countries in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. The Conference contained many elements, and these will be reported individually in a number of subsequent postings.