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Presentation by PASCAL Director Mike Osborne at the 5th International Conference on Learning Cities

Posted November 2, 2021 - 15:21 by Susan Kelly

A report entitled, Learning for global health in cities community resilience and the strengthening of learning cities, was written by SHLC team members Mike Osborne, Yulia Nesterova and Ramjee Bhandari as a background paper for UNESCO’s 5th International Conference on Learning Cities held in Yoensu, Republic of Korea from 27-30 October 2021.

In his presentation to the conference within the strand, Strengthening community resilience and the resilience of local learning systems, Mike Osborne summarised the key issues that emerged in the course of analysing responses from an analysis of 25 cases of city responses to COVID-19 through an educational lens.

‘Conversations with Learners’ Event, Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 10am-11am Dublin time

Posted November 2, 2021 - 14:55 by Yvonne Lane
Nov 10 2021 10:00
Nov 10 2021 11:00
Europe/Dublin
*** ONLINE WEBINAR ***
Irish Network of Learning Cities (INLC)
Limerick
Ireland  Ireland

The Irish Network of Learning Cities (INLC) is proud to present ‘Conversations with Learners’, a fantastic free event that seeks to promote learning and diverse learner stories from across the island of Ireland.

This online event will feature an introduction to each of the five INLC learning cities and showcase a learner’s story relevant to the themes of widening access and the learner centred approaches needed in a learning city.

Learning for a better future: Perspectives on higher education, cities, business and civil society - Marius Venter and Suzanne Hattingh

Posted November 2, 2021 - 14:17 by Peter Kearns

The Centre for Local Economic Development at the University of Johannesburg, the host of PASCAL Africa has published papers from 14th PASCAL International Conference held in Pretoria in 2017under the title, Learning for a Better Future - Perspectives on Higher Education, Cities, Business and Civil Society. The book, edited by Marius Venter and Suzanne Hattingh, provides perspectives on a range of subjects relevant to the role of learning in progressing towards a better , sustainable future across higher education, cities, business and civil society in a context of turbulent change.

ALCN Ripples October Newsletter

Posted November 1, 2021 - 15:40 by Leone Wheeler

This issue of Ripples features Wyndham Learning City receiving a UNESCO Learning City Award at the Fifth Conference on Learning Cities in Yeonsu (Republic of Korea) 2021; stories from our RMIT University intern students; and a climate change case study from Gwydir Learning Region.

UNESCO learning cities commit to boosting learning for health and call on national governments to make lifelong learning a priority

Posted October 31, 2021 - 16:10 by David Atchoarena

With the adoption of the Yeonsu Declaration at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), UNESCO learning cities from around the world pledged to place lifelong learning for health and the development of resilience at the centre of their agenda.

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