The Sigismondi Institute in Nocera City Umbria, Italy recently hosted the first festival of Learning in the City. The festival was part of a dissemination event for an Erasmus+ project involving partners from Italy, Romania, Greece, Israel, and Spain. The PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) project, represented by Rob Mark, acted as academic adviser t to the project.

This a reminder to subscribers that Early Bird registration for the 17th Higher Education Reform confernence, Sustainable Development Goals: Their potential and relevance for higher education policy and reform to be held at the University of Glasgow, from 21-23 June 2023 ends on 14 April 2023.

The opening paragraph of the PIMA Bulletin for January 2023 states: Ethical adult educators cannot continue to provide the same old curricula as if the very existence of the planet were not in peril: we have a “response-ability” (Sterling and Martin, 2019) to contribute to the struggle for climate justice.

One of the many pressing questions we face is how do we unpick the false assumptions about the separation of humans from the more-than-human world – and why does it matter? In this bulletin we open up conversations on these complex issues.