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):

 

Spaces for Literacy: public discussions on the future of libraries

Posted Monday, August 17, 2015 - 09:29 by Michael Burns

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

Theatrum Mundi will be in Edinburgh on 20-21 August 2015, hosting three public discussions on the future of libraries at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. With rapid global urbanisation, digital technology revolutionising access to information and demands on public funding, these debates will ask what spaces will literacy occupy in the 21st century city.

3rd Rolling Workshop on Cultural Policies in Learning Cities held in Pécs in May 2015

Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 13:14 by Terez Kleisz

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

Please find featured below and attached the report of the Rolling Workshop on Cultural Policies in Learning Cities held in Pécs in May 2015. This was the third Rolling Workshop on this subject which followed the workshops held in Östersund and Glasgow.

Building age and culture friendly learning communities and cities for inclusion: Report on the learning forum held in Townsville, Queensland in may 2015

Posted Monday, June 22, 2015 - 07:27 by Judith Jensen

Network: Addressing Disadvantage to Build Inclusive Learning Cities

In May 2015, the library hosted a Learning Forum in Townsville.  About 40 government, business and community sector participants attended the forum.  The theme of the forum was social inclusion and participants reflected on the topic Building age and culture friendly learning communities and cities for inclusion.

LCN Inclusion Rolling Workshops

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 05:06 by Peter Kearns

Network: Addressing Disadvantage to Build Inclusive Learning Cities

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).

A second visit to Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

Posted Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 18:39 by Norman Longworth

Network: Implementing an EcCoWell Approach for Holistic Development

For the second year running I had the pleasure of attending the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival. Because of a previous appointment, I had missed the UNESCO Growing Learning in Cork event and had only the Thursday and the Friday to enjoy the proceedings, being picked up at the airport on a wet and miserable Wednesday night by Willie McAuliffe (Chair of the Festival Organising Committee) after a 14 hour journey.

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