Learning Cities 2030

How can we develop the capacity of third sector organisations to engage with data?

Feb 4 2015 10:00
Europe/London
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde
16 Richmond Street
Glasgow

10am to 4pm Wednesday 4th February 2015 at the Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Izmir University of Economics joins Networks

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) has become the first Turkish university to participate in the PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) program. Located in the third city of Turkey which is the second biggest port in turkey after Istanbul, IEU was established in 2001 by the Izmir Chamber of Commerce Education and Health Foundation.

Bristol - A Learning City

Subscribers may be interested in learning city development in the city of Bristol in the West of England. 'Bristol: A Learning City', has been developed by organisations and businesses across the City and administered by Bristol City Council.  It follows a Mayor's Commission for Education and Skills, chaired by Ron Ritchie, which aimed to:

Cultural Policies and Activities for Sustainable Learning Cities, Communities, and Regions - A Rolling Workshop for 2015

This paper has been prepared to provide some background and short overviews of selected issues with a set of questions for discussion at the Rolling Workshops which will be held in the period February to May 2015 in Ostersund, Glasgow, Catania, and Pecs to discuss how cultural policies and activities can be developed so as to contribute to sustaining learning cities and regions.

Ripples - Summer 2014 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network

Please find featured below and attached the Summer 2014 newsletter of Ripples, the Australian Learning Communities Network:

Connecting People & Cities: Centre for Liveable Cities (Singapore) Annual Report 2013-2014

Subscribers may wish to read the annual report of the Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore which is featured below:

Global Network of Learning Cities: Newsletter December 2014/ Boletín Informativo Diciembre 2014 / Bulletin d´Information Décembre 2014

Welcome to the third issue of the Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) Newsletter:

PASCAL Associates at the UNESCO Learning Cities meeting in Mexico City

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Government of Mexico City invited the Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) members and experts in the field to a two day meeting in Mexico City on the 19th and 20th November with overarching themes of:

Communicating in plain language, avoiding academic “silos”, developing “narratives” -- keys to City and Region Learning

The ways that cities and regions can truly advance themselves in meaningful ways hinges upon their ability to think and act as cities and regions.  Getting to the point where this may be accomplished is a long and difficult road, to say the least.  Learning is at the center of this, which is at the core of PASCAL.

Toolkit for helping cities learn: A quick guide to tools available in the PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 programme

There are numerous rankings and indexes intended to summarise the comparative performance of cities around the world. They vary widely in their purpose, thematic focus, scope, data sources and methods. As a consequence their results are not always consistent, and it is often not clear what actions cities need to take if they wish to improve their position.

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