As there are only 18 days to go until the 2^nd International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), we are now issuing our last call for registration. To date, more than 500 participants, including mayors, city representatives and representatives of international organizations, the private sector, NGOs and academia, have registered to help shape the future of learning cities.

“Community Learning Centres will play a more important role in sustainable development in the future,” says Arne Carlsen, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

This handbook identifies principles and policy mechanisms to advance community-based learning for sustainable development, based on the commitments endorsed by the participants of the Kominkan-CLC International Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which was held in Okayama City, Japan, in October 2014.

100 Resilient Cities, created by The Rockefeller Foundation, has announced that it will take up residency at the Urban Innovation Centre. From today, its office space in the building will act as the organisation’s regional headquarters to serve cities across Europe and the Middle East.

A significant and historic milestone was laid in the network of learning cities in Israel this week, In an exciting and festive ceremony with the signing of the first treaty of its kind in the Israeli learning cities network between the first such city in Israel, Modi'in, the Arab town of Daburiya in the Galilee, and the city of Udine, in Italy – three learning cities representing three different religions and cultures.