Please find attached PASCAL Briefing Paper 15,  Building entrepreneurship in sustainable learning cities, written by PASCAL Board Member, Peter Kearns. We offer our thanks to Dr Yuan Dayong of Beijing Academy of Social Sciences for the translation into Mandarin and to Ms. Jihye Han, Doctoral Student at the Free University of Berlin for the translation into Korean, arranged by Professor Han Soonghee of Seoul National University.

Recently, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Tony Fitzgerald, invited PASCAL Board member Peter Kearns OAM FACE, to a civic reception at which he presented Peter with a citation for his contribution towards Cork as a lifelong learning city and their UNESCO 3rd International  Conference on Learning Cities in 2016. 

PASCAL subscribers may be interested in a recent series on 'Overstretched Cities' published by the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The series looks at cities across every continent. One of the blogs includes a short profile on Kigali one of the case study cities within the GCRF Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods of which I'm Senior Business Manager.

The long term development strategy for Sofia and the region is an initiative of the Sofia Municipality, which started at the end of 2016 with the objective of creating a system of interaction, and analysis of the current condition of Sofia.