Network Blogs

Here are the latest Learning Cities Networks Blog postings (to see specific Network Blogs, please click on the relevant name from the list of NETWORKS in the left hand column):

 

Invitation: Fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (27-30 October 2021)

Posted Friday, October 15, 2021 - 15:23 by Raul Valdes-Cotera

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

Register by 19 October 2021 for the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities at Yoensu in the Republic of Korea from 27-30 October at this link. Further details of the programme are featured below and attached, and we are pleased to announce that amongst the presenters and moderators are PASCAL representatives, Professors Robbie Guevara, Roberta Piazza and Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL at the University of Glasgow.

Final Report - 2021 Wyndham Learning Festival

Posted Friday, October 15, 2021 - 15:10 by Jac Torres Gomez

Network: Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures

Following the successful completion of the Wyndham Learning Festival 2021 from 1-5 September 2021 and the subsequent evaluation, the final report is now available.

Meeting Notes: Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives - 23 September 2021

Posted Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 13:44 by Leone Wheeler

Network: Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

The highlight of the 6th meeting of the Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives Network within PASCAL’s Learning Cities Networks (LCN) on 23 September was a presentation about the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs (IIRA): building the capacity of community leaders and policy makers.

Learning for a better future

Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 23:49 by Peter Kearns

Network: Learning Cities: Meeting Today’s Challenges for a Better Future

The role of learning cities in meeting today’s challenges for a better future has been a dominant theme in PASCAL work on learning throughout the period 2017 to 2021. This theme has been given urgency and direction by developments during this period, especially the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while demographic change with ageing populations, the growing impact of the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, and the pace of change, in their cumulative impact have brought this sense of a time of disruption and turbulence with the world out of control.

PIMA Bulletin No. 38 (Sept 2021)

Posted Monday, September 27, 2021 - 11:40 by Shirley Walters

Network: Learning Cities: Meeting Today’s Challenges for a Better Future

This issue of the Bulletin is unusually long and diverse. Readers are reminded that it is an open access publication. Anyone is welcome to share it, in full or a particular article or passage, acknowledging the original PIMA source.

How will we remember 2021? The year of COVID-19 (variant Delta) and what it meant to oneself, one’s family, community, life, work, even country?. Maybe if we are in educational settings - school, community centre, or higher education institution (HEI) - for its transformative effect on teaching methods, market appeal, loss of income and insecurity of employment?

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