Please find featured below and attached a report on Cork’s learning city initiative which was published in the fall of this year by the Conference Board of Canada. 

Bristol took to the stage at a two-day conference in Hangzhou, China, last month to showcase its partnership approach to tackling inequality in the city through learning.

Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers relating to the Nordic Conference in Jönköping, the International Conference on HRD in Lisbon, the EDEN Annual Conference in Jönköping, the EURAM Business for Society Track in Glasgow and the JVET Conference in Glasgow (see Conferences), the Summer Days of the History and Philosophy of Education in Tampere (see Networks), the PhD Workshop on VET Inclusiveness in Lausanne (see Programmes), Special Issues on Entrepreneurship Education and on International Mobility, and the next volume of The International Journal of HRD Practice, Policy & Research (see Publications).

PASCAL International Observatory Board Member, Peter Kearns OAM FACE, headlined the 2016 International Conference on Visions for the Taipei Learning City. He spoke on taking the marvellous initiatives begun to 'new heights' as he opened discussions on 'objectives and strategies for the long haul'. Other international guest speakers were invited from Europe (Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France & Italy), Japan (Tokyo & Waseda Universities), China (Beijing & China) and Australia.