PASCAL International Observatory, whose European base is at the University of Glasgow, has been engaged in a range of activities around the world. These include a major collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, a successful webinar series, Learning Cities COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice, co-led by PASCAL director, Mike Osborne in 2020, which for the convenience of subscribers we are now re-posting and highlighting as a complete entity here.

We are pleased to share UN-Habitat Urban-Rural Linkages Programme’s latest updates [with key documents featured below and attached].

Today the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings were announced with the University of Glasgow placed very highly internationally, especially in relation to SDG11 (making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe and sustainable), where it is placed second in the world. It is therefore apposite that we are able to announce the latest CR&DALL policy paper, authored by CR&DALL director, Professor Mike Osborne, and published jointly with the ASEM LLL Hub entitled National Lifelong Learning Policies and Learning Cities, which can be found at this link.

Villa Maria hosted the First Meeting of Learning Cities of Argentina on March 10 and 11, 2022. Representatives from Argentinian cities members of the UNESCO GNLC Global Network Learning Cities participated in the meeting.  The cities were Villa María in Córdoba, La Matanza in Buenos Aires, and San Justo in Santa Fe.