In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre, commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline the range of research currently underway in UK universities that connected with cities.

The Cultural Planning Forums in Victoria may be of interest to PASCAL subscribers and especially the network within the Learning Cities Network (LCN) concerned with Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

The forums are presented by the Cultural Development Network (CDN) in collaboration with the Arts and Cultural Committee, Municipal Association of Victoria, and the Melbourne City Council, Corangamite Shire Council, Gannawarra Shire Council, Mitchell Shire Council and Latrobe City Council.

Attached you will find details of initiatives that have received funding in Glasgow and Ostersund and which I hope will be of interest to you, and especially those within PASCAL's Learning Cities Networks theme of Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

Glasgow is the UK's Future City Demonstrator city and has developed considerable expertise in the design, development and application of future city solutions across a range of urban challenges.

These are to be found in big data, open data, transportation, energy, public safety, health, environment, communications, demography and climate change.