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Toolkit for helping cities learn: A quick guide to tools available in the PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 programme

Posted November 17, 2014 - 15:47 by John Tibbitt

There are numerous rankings and indexes intended to summarise the comparative performance of cities around the world. They vary widely in their purpose, thematic focus, scope, data sources and methods. As a consequence their results are not always consistent, and it is often not clear what actions cities need to take if they wish to improve their position.

PASCAL Director Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers to give keynote at TNLC in Cape Town

Posted November 11, 2014 - 12:07 by Frances Gaughan

PASCAL Director, Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers will be giving the keynote at the opening of the Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Cape Town on December 2, 2014, invited by the CEO of Talloires and the organizing team at the University of Stellenbosch.

World Future Council - Newsletter November 2014

Posted November 10, 2014 - 12:29 by Heather Peirce

Featured below is the November 2014 Newsletter for the World Future Council:

Sustainable City Index 2.0

Posted November 2, 2014 - 12:35 by Heather Peirce

Some of you may already have noticed that an update of the Sustainable City Index has recently been published. This new version, SCI 2.0, is further developed, improved and extended in comparison with the first edition. It now consists of 24 indicators, including important indicators for Energy, CO2 emissions and Mobility. The index comprises all 403 municipalities in The Netherlands.

Contribute to the Resilient Cities 2015 congress program!

Posted October 14, 2014 - 09:47 by Heather Peirce

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, and the City of Bonn are pleased to announce the open call for contributions for Resilient Cities 2015 - the 6th Global Forum on Urban Resilience & Adaptation to climate change, to be held 8-10 June 2015 in Bonn, Germany.

The Concept of Satellite Museums in Regional Development

Posted October 5, 2014 - 11:04 by Henrik Zipsane

In the last decades of the 20th Century we saw a very interesting trend in the museum branch internationally.

Future of Cities has published two new working papers

Posted October 1, 2014 - 10:26 by Mike Osborne

The UK government Office for Science project, Future of Cities has published two new working papers: Nick Dunn’s ‘A Visual History of the Future’and Ron Martin’s ‘The evolving economic performance of UK cities.

Lifelong Learning and the Challenges facing Education in the 21st Century: UNESCO Perspectives

Posted September 18, 2014 - 10:48 by Denise Reghenza...
Oct 9 2014 16:30
Australia/Queensland
May Hancock Auditorium (Playhouse Theatre), Women’s College
College Road
St Lucia QLD 4067

Our earlier ACE Lifelong Learning seminars in this series have set a foundation and context in which to consider the “challenges” Professor Power will outline in acknowledging that “quality education” needs to be “directed at the full development of the human personality” across all life stages, ages and levels.

The challenge in building enterprising partnerships in cities - a response to PASCAL Policy Briefing 5

Posted September 11, 2014 - 11:05 by Peter Kearns

Mike Osborne and John Tibbitt make a compelling case in PASCAL Policy Briefing 5 that connecting adult education and place is a vital task of learning cities. They moreover give a useful list of policy drivers for this purpose. However, in looking around it is difficult to see where this is happening so that the need exists to probe the barriers and opportunities further to identify necessary steps in forging this desired nexus.

Adult education and place: a vital link for learning cities - Policy Briefing 5 from PASCAL International Observatory

Posted September 4, 2014 - 17:08 by John Tibbitt

The importance of adult education has been affirmed in recent policy documents in several countries, justified in terms of its benefits to individuals and the wider benefits society draws from having a better educated population. Rarely is policy on adult education tied in to policies on the development of place, especially to current interest in the development of learning cities. This paper identifies policy drivers essential for embedding learning in the processes of learning cities.

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