It is our great pleasure to inform you that the UNESCO Learning City Award 2017 is now open for applications:

Please note that the deadline for registration for the PASCAL 2016 Conference, if you have not already done so, is May 15; this has to be strictly adhered to. So please register on the Conference website.

Please also note that the preferred rates that we have for hotels will only be available up until one month before the conference. So you need to ensure your hotel booking by May 3 if you wish to use these hotels at the rates shown in the ATTEND section of the Conference website.

Welcome to the Foresight Future of Cities project's final update. Since our last newsletter, we've been busy publishing evidence and preparing our final project outputs, as the project formally comes to an end. So, over the coming weeks, we will publish the remaining papers – as well as the three project reports:

We are pleased that PASCAL Director Professor Michael Osborne was a contributor to the recent Asia Europe Meeting Rectors' conference (ARC5) in Prague, Employability: Asia and Europe Prepare the New Generation. The final sets of policy recommendations for the Students’ Forum and the Rectors’ Conference are now published on the ASEF website and are featured below and attached.