Over the next few months we'll be reflecting on the Urban Big Data Centre's achievements across the first phase of the centre and looking ahead to the next five years.
The recent announcement by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 1987 Nuclear Missile Treaty raised more concerns in Europe about its security. Trump’s blunt NATO/EU security strategy with a question of burden sharing at its core, combined with heightened security perceptions of resurgent Russia add to a growing sense of insecurity across the European capitals. Russia’s message to the Europeans is blunt and clear: should the US withdraw from the 1987 Treaty Europe will once again become a target of Russian land-based and ship-borne missile systems.
On behalf of the Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) you are invited to attend their 2019 Annual Conference and Meeting. The theme of our conference this year is Forging Ahead to a Brighter Future: Diversity and Partnerships in Continuing Education.
It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will live in urban areas, that nearly all global population growth from 2017 to 2030 will be absorbed by cities -- about 1.1 billion new urbanites over the next 13 years.
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Spain
We are delighted to announce that the 11th Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS-2018) will be held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in November 2018, sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands as a contribution to their aim to promote Knowledge-based Development in this autonomous region.
RMIT City Campus, Courtroom 3, Level 2, RMIT Building 20
124 La Trobe Street
Melbourne
Australia
In September 2015, the United Nations unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda, seventeen Sustainable Development Goals to shape international efforts to promote a sustainable, peaceful and equitable world by 2030. Each Goal is accompanied by a set of more specific targets with indicators to measure progress.
The EU Digital Single Market (DSM), launched in May 2015, is the strategy of the European Commission to ensure cross-border access to online activities for individuals and businesses in Europe under conditions of fair competition, consumer and data protection, updated copyright rules, and the removal geo-blocking.
Barcelona School of Management (BSM) building, Pompeu Fabra University
Balmes 132
Barcelona
Spain
Full programme available! Join us! Are you Interested in the integration of Cultural Diversity at a higher education level? Do you want to know what experts think about it? Are you curious to engaged with real cases? The full programme of our eucen 2018 Autumn Seminar is now available here!
The Melton Lifelong Learning Festival is a three day celebration of all that is lifelong, life-deep and life-wide learning across the City of Melton. It will be an inclusive community event that provides opportunities for free activities and events that engage a diverse cohort of participants, across all age groups, abilities and interests.
PASCAL and its Learning Cities Networks (LCN) initiative were delighted to be co-sponsors with the University of Pécs and its Learning City-Region Forum of an International Conference on 20th September, 2018, on the theme of Learning Cities and Culture Working Together. Also sponsoring the event were the Municipality of Pécs, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).