On July 29, 2016, Drs. Maria Liu Wong and Connie Watson (LearnLong Institute for Education and Learning Research) hosted a gathering of local scholars and practitioners from diverse faith traditions and cultural backgrounds (eg. Hindu monk interested in mindfulness and AI, Colombian Catholic missionary in the Bronx, Indian Pentecostal pastor / scholar, African-American neighborhood chaplain from Harlem, Japanese/Filipino-American Vineyard church planter, Jewish-American psychology professor and adult learning scholar from Philadelphia, etc.) at City Seminary of New York, with special guest Dr. Rob Mark (Director, PASCAL Learning Cities Networks).

The 13th International Congress of Educating Cities held in Barcelona in November adopted a Declaration on Inclusion in Educating Cities. 838 participants from 189 cities in 34 countries attended the conference.

The objective of the event, the third in the PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 workshop series, was to bring about an awareness of the role and needs of local communities in relation to learning, and to seek smart solutions in which cities and other public organizations can play a greater role in response to those needs. The workshop was attended by some 80 people from a number of different counties. There were 18 presentations in the workshop including the keynote presentations. The attached document summarises some of the main issues from the workshop.