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17th PASCAL conference, July 4th to 6th, 2024 - New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts – Revised Dates for Abstracts

Posted March 8, 2024 - 12:25 by Mike Osborne

Whilst we have been very pleased with the response that we have had to our call for abstracts for the 17th PASCAL conference in Taipei, a number of colleagues have requested an extension of the deadline. Therefore we are now announcing a new deadline of 1 April 2024 for further abstracts.

New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts

Posted March 4, 2024 - 15:18 by Mike Osborne

Dear LCN participants,

A reminder that today (4 March) is the deadline to submit abstracts to the conference in Taipei, and we hope that a number of you are able to come from the LCNs.

Webinar - Faith and Spirituality in Learning cities: Empathy & Sympathy of Human vs AI Moral Advisers in Cities

Posted February 26, 2024 - 11:59 by Susan Kelly
Mar 15 2024 12:30
Europe/London
*** ZOOM WEBINAR ***
Swansea

The PASCAL Learning Cities Network (LCN), Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development, and the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), in partnership with Swansea University and Glasgow University, are very happy to invite you to this open-access WEBINAR on the challenges and opportunities for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in spiritual instruction. Can AI ensure moral flourishing, learning, and well-being in our cities?

ALCN Ripples - February 2024

Posted February 19, 2024 - 10:43 by Leone Wheeler

The Australian Learning Communities Network Ripples newsletter for February 2024 features dates for our online learning forums, and the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival (Victoria), as well as a summary of the City of Ballarat’s lifelong learning profile (Victoria) and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield Libraries 2023 Impact project. Feedback and contributions for the next edition of the newsletter is welcome.

Local Economies and Pandemics - new book from PASCAL Africa

Posted December 19, 2023 - 11:41 by Marius Venter

We are pleased to make available a new book from the Centre for Local Economic Development that hosts PASCAL Africa at the University of Johannesburg.

How I made the most of my visit to Tampere University | PASCAL Americas Director

Posted December 19, 2023 - 11:40 by Radha Jagannathan

I recently had a productive visit to Tampere University in Finland, sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the Finland Fulbright Foundation. The contacts at Tampere University that facilitated this research visit were made possible by the PASCAL network of associates. I thank Mike Osborne for these introductions

University leaders commit to transforming higher education institutions into lifelong learning agents

Posted December 19, 2023 - 11:39 by Heribert Hinzen

Higher education institutions (HEIs) must evolve into agents for lifelong learning with the help of innovative institutional strategies – this was the key message of a recent international conference organized by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Shanghai Open University (SOU), ‘Promoting lifelong learning in higher education: From institutional strategies to practical implementation’. Held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, from 19 to 21 October 2023, the conference welcomed over 250 participants, including university leaders, policy-makers, higher education experts, scholars and researchers, from China and abroad.

Wyndham News - December 2023 Edition

Posted December 10, 2023 - 13:41 by Susan Kelly

We are pleased to share with you the December Edition of Wyndham News, featured below in full and attached for download.

Special Issue of PIMA Bulletin - Climate Justice Education- November 2023

Posted November 23, 2023 - 12:27 by Shirley Walters

A new PIMA (PASCAL International Members Association) Bulletin on Climate Justice Education is now published. This Bulletin grew out of the conversations within the PIMA Bulletin Number 48, January 2023 January 2023 Bulletin TOC | PIMA Network where we began to (re)envision relations between humans and the more-than-human world from different vantage points.

PASCAL Asia-Pacific Center launched

Posted November 20, 2023 - 18:09 by Mario Delos Reyes

UP Diliman (UPD) recently launched the PASCAL Regional Centre for Asia-Pacific, to be housed at the UPD School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP).

"We are confident that this collaboration will trigger innovation in education, research, and public service in the 21st century given the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous world."

SURP Dean Dina C. Magnaye said.

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