PASCAL Director for Europe, Mike Osborne, and Associate Director for Europe, Roberta Piazza, were both speakers at a conference entitled, Learning City and Cultural Diversity hosted by Univerista degli Studi Roma Tre on 16 February 2017 under the patronage of the Italian Commission for UNESCO.
Featured below and attached, please find a report on a Cork EcCoWell breakfast on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. EcCoWell is a concept devised by PASCAL to mark an approach to integrated and holistic development in learning cities.
In the next issue of Adult Education and Development we look at the role adult education plays in building, fostering and understanding diversity. We are also curious how inclusion can be taught, if at all. If you are working with inclusion, or diversity, please write for us!
Would you like to investigate an urban policy, planning or research problem using big, complex, or administrative data? If so, the UBDC is here to help. We provide access to novel and innovative urban-related data, as well as expert support.
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning has announced the Irish city of Cork to host the 3rd International Conference on Learning Cities to be held 18-20 September 2017. The conference promises to be another important step forward in placing lifelong learning at the centre of sustainable city development, especially inclusive and equitable quality education for all. Earlier conferences were held in Beijing and Mexico City.
Shelter is a basic need and the Australasian Housing Research Conference seeks to tackle the issues around sustainability, adequacy, equality, renewal, architecture. legislation to the economies of providing safe and affordable housing. The theme of Global Inequalities fits well within the UN Sustainable Development Goals and takes developing world issues to the urban crises.
The Big Tent Consortium, a global network of universities and their community partners today issued a call to action to its members to oppose the Jan. 27 US travel ban, join with other worldwide protests, and create spaces for dialogue within universities and communities everywhere. The call was part of a Consortium statement that responds to the US ban targeting citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries and which provides the latest evidence of growing Islamophobia and exclusionary trends around the world.
Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers relating to the Nordic Conference in Jönköping, the EAEEIE Conference on European projects in Grenoble, AVETRA 2017 in Melbourne (see Conferences) and the Summer Days/ VET&Culture conference in Tampere (see Networks); a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on 'The changing world of work', a Summer School on 'Creative Methods' (see Programmes) and a new issue of IJRVET (see Publications) .
We are pleased to share with you this issue of our newsletter. 2016 was a fruitful and inspiring year for the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities.
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