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PASCAL Conference in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, 30/31 August and 1 September 2018

The Programme for the 15th PASCAL International Conference to be co-organised and hosted by the Gyeonggi Do Provincial Institute for Lifelong Learning (GILL) and the Korean Academic Society for Lifelong Education from 30 August -1 September at Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea, now provides further details of its content.

Datong Community College, Taipei - EcCoWell Leadership

Taipei has been at the forefront of Learning City development and are advancing EcCoWell2 objectives.  Datong Community College has been a leader in this.  Initially, President, Dr Eugenia Chang, and her staff worked with their district Rice Festival organisers to develop a range of complimentary learning experiences for citizens.  Recently, they have developed local actions through activities, lectures and workshops to extend and enhance learning in neighbourhoods, including 2 main initiatives:

PASCAL Briefing Paper 10 - Developing holistic and integrated learning cities: Health and EcCoWell - now available in Korean

We are very pleased that Briefing Paper 10 by Peter Kearns is now available in Korean. The paper revisits PASCAL's EcCOWell model developing it into EcCoWell 2. This topic will for sure be one of the features of the next PASCAL conference in Suwon, Korea in from 30 August to 1 September 2018. Thanks to YunAh Park, a student on our Erasmus Mundus Masters in Adult Education for Social Change for translating this paper.

Rethinking EcCoWell: In the Context of Sustainable Development Goals

This paper reviews the experience of the EcCoWell concept which was developed by PASCAL in 2012 as an approach to holistic and integrated development of learning cities.

The conclusions and recommendations of the paper were approved by the PASCAL Board in November 2017 and are now serving as the basis for implementing EcCoWell 2 as a refinement of the EcCoWell concept relevant to progressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in towns and cities. 

LCN Inclusion Rolling Workshops

The Rolling Workshop approach which has been successfully applied by the Harnessing Cultural Policy Network will now be applied by the LCN's Inclusion Network with an Inclusion Rolling Workshop which commenced in Townsville on 4 May. The Townsville Workshop will be followed by workshops in Glasgow (early July), Bristol (15 October), and Melbourne (2 December).

Making a Commonwealth Games Legacy Meaningful - a new International Legacy Network is launched

PASCAL, with links to Melbourne and Brisbane, Montreal and Vancouver, Barcelona, Helsinki, Glasgow and Manchester - all cities on 3 continents which have hosted or will host the Commonwealth Games or other mega-events such as the Olympics - can expect to play a role in developing the International Legacy Network, described in the attached documentation, and in building a tool kit to use the lessons of experience and facilitate knowledge exchange.

Report for Delegates of the Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions Symposium, Swansea 2014

On May 21st 2014 Swansea University hosted a Symposium entitled Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions. It was attended by forty-five invited delegates drawn from the Swansea Learning City initiative and from a number of countries engaged in developing entrepreneurial learning city regions.

Inauguration of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

The Chairman of the PASCAL Governing Board, Dr Josef Konvitz, issued the following statement today on the inauguration of the new program of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

New Projects in Glasgow and Ostersund

Attached you will find details of initiatives that have received funding in Glasgow and Ostersund and which I hope will be of interest to you, and especially those within PASCAL's Learning Cities Networks theme of Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

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