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This is our last newsletter for 2015, which has proven to be a productive year for the world’s learning cities. We hope that 2016 will see the continued development of comprehensive lifelong learning policies and programmes, not only at national levels, but also at local levels: in the cities, towns, villages and communities where implementation happens.
Subscribers we hope will be interested to read this article published in Times Higher Education about the work of Sherwan Taha, a former University of Glasgow Masters student, in fostering learning city development in Iraqi Kurdistan. We congratulate him on his efforts.
The University of Glasgow is very pleased that we will be launching Professor Josef Konvitz's new book, Cities and Crisis, published by Manchester University Press, on 25 February 2016 in Glasgow.
This study forms part of the publication series “Sustainable Development of Metropolitan Regions” that gives conceptual guidance and recommendations for hands-on approaches for development organizations as well as partner countries in the field of sustainable development of metropolitan regions.
"We seek to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls" - this goal has been declared in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as one of the main goals (SDGS) that will define our global community over the next fifteen years.
This international Conference offers an excellent meeting, networking and discussion forum and brings together thinkers, planners, practitioners, academics and experts from businesses, private and public sector government to share latest ideas, discuss products, processes and to debate issues and challenges around themes relating to the creation of more 'Smart Cities in Smart Regions'.
We are in the midst of a new economic age, a complex competitive landscape defined largely by globalization and digitalisation. That means that the utilization and production of knowledge and innovativeness have become critical to organizational survival (Uhl-Bien, Marion, McKelvey, 2007).
I am pleased to inform subscribers of PASCAL that the city of Taipei will be sending a delegation of 14 to Glasgow for the upcoming 13th PASCAL International Conference, June 3-5, 2016. We look forward to meeting other cities as well as discovering more about the other learning cities and the Scottish education system.
We have made arrangements for the reservation of a limited number of rooms for delegates with a number of hotels close to the university campus within various price ranges for the nights of 2, 3 and 4 June 2016 as follows:
The historical agreement reached by 195 governments at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP 21) in Paris on 12th December 2015, is a turning point in respect of global efforts to tackle climate change. The mandate to all countries in the world is clear: we need concerted efforts, action and investments towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future.
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