This ALCN newsletter features Adult Learners Week, Wyndham and Melton Learning Festivals and several online webinars - lifelong learning for work and life; stories from UNESCO learning cities in Australia and Thailand, and reflections on community engagement.  

Enjoy reading and please send me more of your incredible stories of hope to share with others.

With my best wishes.

We are very pleased that eight representatives from the University of Glasgow were able to visit the University of Duhok in May 2023 under the aegis of Erasmus+ Institutional Mobility Programme. The delegation was led by Michael Osborne, Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning, Director of CR&DALL (School of Education) and Director of PASCAL Europe, and also included Qammar Abbasi, Professor of Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering, Brian Barrett, Reader in Environmental Remote Sensing (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences), John Davies, Research Fellow and Associate Director of Arts Lab (College of Arts), Muhammad Imran, Professor of Communication Systems/Dean Transnational Engineering Education, Mary Ryan, International Development Research Manager (Research & Innovation Services),  Yulia Nesterova, Lecturer in International and Comparative Education (School of Education) and Kirstie Wild, Head of Research and Operations Strategy (College of Arts).

The Sigismondi Institute in Nocera City Umbria, Italy recently hosted the first festival of Learning in the City. The festival was part of a dissemination event for an Erasmus+ project involving partners from Italy, Romania, Greece, Israel, and Spain. The PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) project, represented by Rob Mark, acted as academic adviser t to the project.