A classic example used in many school books to illustrate how industrialisation changed the way of life in the second half of the 19^th century is the need for fixing time on local, national and international level. It was a precondition for knowing when a train would arrive and depart. But another impact of fixing the time according to the clock was that employees knew when to meet and when to leave their workplace and workers and employers alike could measure salary related to work hours.

Convened by Tsinghua University (Beijing) and a consortium of partners in other Universities, Ageing Centres, Associations and Public Organisations, the Ageing Well theme focussed on:

• Building a health care policy system,
• Cultivating professional personnel talents, and
• Developing high quality health care services.

The urgency was stressed, i.e. to ensure healthy environments for ageing and to optimise public service delivery.

EcCoWell was developed by the PASCAL International Observatory in 2012 (PIE), based on the experience of Taipei city, as an approach to developing learning cities in a holistic and cohesive manner. The emergence of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, with a similar requirement for holistic development has enhanced the significance of the EcCoWell experience.

Whether you are new to the network or have been in on a few of our conversations, we hope you will find time on June 6 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST ( https://zoom.us/j/996200309) or June 13 10 AM - 11 AM EST (https://zoom.us/j/617404042) for an opportunity to reconnect. This will be by Zoom and in-person in New York City (City Seminary of New York) / Glasgow (University of Glasgow) if you are available. Please RSVP by June 5 or June 12, 2019.