Events

SHLC Seminar: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Liveability in Regional Cities in Bangladesh

Posted March 2, 2020 - 08:55 by Gail Wilson
Mar 30 2020 14:00
Mar 30 2020 15:30
Europe/London
Urban Big Data Centre
7 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RZ
Scotland  Scotland

What does a liveable city mean to you? In this seminar, Dr Hanna Ruszczyk (Institute of Hazard Risk and Resilience, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK) and Dr Istiakh Ahmed (International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh) will present research findings from an interdisciplinary  project exploring ‘liveability’ in Mongla and Noapara in south-western Bangladesh.

SHLC contributing to the World Urban Forum

Posted February 6, 2020 - 11:21 by Ya Ping Wang
Feb 10 2020 12:30
Asia/Dubai
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center (ADNEC), Hall 3, Room 15
Khaleej Al Arabi Street
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates  United Arab Emirates

A number of core members of GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) will be contributing to a side event of the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi on Monday 10 February 2020 on the topic of Understanding Cities from the Inside Out: Sustainability of Neighbourhoods in Asia and Africa.

Free event - Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, 25 Feb 2020 at RMIT

Posted February 3, 2020 - 08:15 by Matthew Coote
Feb 25 2020 12:30
Feb 25 2020 14:00
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT Council Chamber, Building 1, Level 2R,
124 La Trobe St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia  Australia

From 2018–20, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied by a Policy Brief.

Derry City and Strabane Lifelong Learning Festival, 18-24 May 2020

Posted February 3, 2020 - 07:21 by Paul Haslam
May 18 2020
May 24 2020
Europe/Belfast
Derry City and Strabane
United Kingdom  United Kingdom

Derry City and Strabane Learning City is running an exciting new festival in May 2020 which will celebrate all types of learning across the city and region.  The festival aims to make learning accessible to all citizens and this is an opportunity to showcase all the amazing learning activities/events happening across the city and region. 

Appreciating Urban India: Development Policies and Practices - PRIA Academy Urban School from 10-12 February, 2020

Posted January 22, 2020 - 14:41 by Rajesh Tandon
Feb 10 2020
Feb 12 2020
Asia/Calcutta
PRIA International Academy (PIA)
42, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi - 110062
India  India

We are pleased to announce the First “Urban School” on “Appreciating Urban India: Development Policies and Practices” on 10-12 February 2020 at Society for Participatory Research in Asia – PRIA [42 Tughlakabad Institutional Area (near Batra Hospital on Mehrauli-Badarpur Road), New Delhi – 110062]. This workshop is being organised by PRIA International Academy (PIA) in partnership with INCLUDe (Indian NGOs for Community Led Urban Development).

UALL Annual Conference 2020 | Second Call for Submissions

Posted January 11, 2020 - 10:33 by Alice Reynolds
Apr 1 2020
Apr 3 2020
Europe/London
Foresight Conference Centre, University of Liverpool
1st Floor Bedford House, Oxford Street
Liverpool L69 7ZP
United Kingdom  United Kingdom

The University Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) UK is pleased to announce the Second Call for Submissions to its upcoming Annual Conference 2020, hosted by the University of Liverpool. The theme of the Conference is Diversity, identity and inclusion in Lifelong Learning: Shaping a 2020 vision for mature students.

Are We Doing Enough to Adapt to a Disrupted World?

Posted January 7, 2020 - 09:16 by Mike Osborne
Jul 5 2020
Jul 9 2020
Asia/Singapore
Sands Expo & Convention Centre
10 Bayfront Ave
Singapore 018956
Singapore  Singapore

At World Cities Summit 2020, we will discuss how best to empower mayors and city leaders to use the right tools, the right way through collective actions by governments, businesses and the community. Further details, together with last years' Mayors' Report are featured below.

HER 2020 | Sustainable Development Goals: Their potential and relevance for higher education policy and reform, 31 Aug - 2 Sept, 2020

Posted December 17, 2019 - 13:43 by Muir Houston
Aug 31 2020
Sep 2 2020
Europe/London
University of Glasgow School of Education
St Andrews Building, 11 Eldon St
Glasgow G3 6NH
Scotland  Scotland

Higher education confronts a curious paradox. One of its traditional core missions is innately conservative: to conserve and transmit knowledge and culture for and to future generations. This tends also to be conservative in the related sense of reproducing the cultures – the modes, values and mores – of the different societies which it inhabits and which sustain it.

C2UExpo 2020 | Culture, Place and Resilience - 12-14 May, 2020, Ontario, Canada

Posted December 4, 2019 - 12:36 by Susan White
May 12 2020
May 14 2020
Canada/Eastern
C2U Expo 2020
Sault Ste. Marie | Baawating
Ontario
Canada  Canada

NORDIK Institute, Algoma University, and Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig would like to welcome you to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada for the 8th C2UExpo (Community-College-University Exposition) on May 12-14. Please submit your call for proposals by January 8th. Registration will open shortly on the C2UExpo 2020 website.

REMINDER: Guest Lecture - The Future of Sustainable Neighbourhoods

Posted November 11, 2019 - 18:02 by Gail Wilson
Nov 20 2019 14:30
Nov 20 2019 14:30
Europe/London
University of Glasgow
Wolfson Medical Building, Yudowitz Lecture Theatre
Glasgow
Scotland  Scotland

in this guest lecture Josef Konvitz, Chair, PASCAL Observatory, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow and former Head, Urban Affairs and Regulatory Policy Divisions at OECD, will explore how sustainable neighbourhoods might help cities respond to challenges of globalisation and widening inequality.

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