LCN Network

Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures Brief

Posted September 16, 2020 - 08:50 by Judith James

Context & background

The Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures network will focus on four areas:

  1. Creating an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for enterprise start-ups and growth: embedding entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship training within a city-region ecosystem of finance, support, space, collaborative procurement, and underpinning technology.
  2. Visioning a new future of Work for Wellbeing: the potential for developing different spaces and ways of measuring employee contribution that is not place and time based and provide an equitable reward.  Altering the reward system to focus on well-being rather than income is a step toward narrowing income disparities. This calls attention to the importance of skills retraining and up-skilling, within employment and for a career change, and forms of successful adaptation to new ways of working.
  3. Visioning a new future of Not-Working for Wellbeing as a result of a changing economy and restrictions as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lifelong learning enhances active citizenship, volunteering, and personal fulfillment in a different world of Not-Working.   
  4. Adjusting to an uncontrolled external environment- due to influences that may be: political, environmental, conflict, health, technology, and the development of Artificial Intelligence. Adapting to change, developing flexibility, enhancing resilience.

Judith James
Swansea University

Leverhulme Lecture - Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities

Posted October 4, 2023 - 10:53 by Mike Osborne
Oct 19 2023 11:00
Oct 19 2023 13:00
Europe/London
University of Swansea
Swansea
United Kingdom
United Kingdom  United Kingdom
Attendees: 
Annie Tubadji
Attendees: 
Nematollah Azizi

We are very pleased to announce a Leverhulme Lecture, entitled 'Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities' to be presented by Nematollah Azizi, University of Kurdistan, Iran and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Glasgow on Thursday, 19th October 2023, 1100-1300, Glyndwr D, Simpleton Campus, University of Swansea. The building is 11.1 on the campus map. All are welcome to this lecture.

PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) welcomes Villa Maria, Argentina

Posted April 19, 2022 - 13:51 by Mike Osborne

PASCAL Observatory is pleased to announce that the Latin American City of Villa Maria (Argentina) has become a member of the Learning Cities Networks (LCN) initiative.

Sherwan Ameen, PASCAL Learning Cities Networks Contributor imprisoned without trial in Iraq

Posted September 21, 2021 - 07:29 by Mike Osborne

Sherwan's predicament is part of what has been described by Amnesty International as human rights abuse in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. According to investigations by Amnesty International, ‘In mid-August 2020, widespread protests erupted in the KR-I, mainly in Sulaimaniyah, Duhok and Erbil, demanding an end to corruption, better public services, and the payment of overdue salaries of government employees'.

Peter Kearns AM Australia Award

Posted May 17, 2021 - 10:25 by Denise Reghenza...

This week PASCAL Board member was invested by the Governor of Queensland, His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, with the Member of the Order (Australia) honour.  PASCAL International Observatory's Professor Mike Osborne recognised Peter's contribution and nominated him (supported by PASCAL's Josef Konvitz as a referee) for this advanced award.

Wyndham City Council - Learning Community Update

Posted May 4, 2021 - 17:25 by Jac Torres Gomez

The team at Wyndham City Council, a member of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network, are excited to share our second annual Learning Community Update (featured below and attached), endorsed at this week’s Ordinary Council Meeting.

PASCAL joins with European Museum Academy to debate issues affecting impact of cultural heritage

Posted April 23, 2021 - 10:14 by Henrik Zipsane

The Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment (SoPHIA project) has hosted a virtual stakeholders conference 21-22 April to debate issues around measuring heritage and its impact in Europe. SoPHIA is an EU research and innovation Horizon 2020 funded project of which PASCAL  is a  member.

CeNS, Philippines, joins the PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) initiative

Posted April 14, 2021 - 07:34 by Rob Mark

We are delighted to welcome the Centre for Neighbourhood Studies (CeNS) in the Philippines to PASCAL’s Learning Cities Networks. Inspired by its ‘mother’ Centre, the GCRF-funded, Centre Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC),

CeNS is an independent non-government, non-profit research and technology organisation that promotes, develops, and enhances research and development, capacity, and partnership-building in environmental and neighbourhood planning and other related fields of endeavour to achieve a smarter and sustainable neighbourhood.

Learning Festivals Taiwanese Style

Posted April 13, 2021 - 16:12 by Marten Ma

Festivals are becoming an established way in which people in cities and local communities can engage in and celebrate new ways of learning.  They are said to have a positive effect on an individual’s well-being and having wider benefits for communities and society. 

PASCAL EcCoWell 2 Recovery Programme - Wolverhampton

Posted December 14, 2020 - 17:14 by Mary Mahoney

A composite report from each of the contributors to the PASCAL EcCoWell 2 Recovery Programme has recently been published. In a series of postings, we are now for the convenience of subscribers, publishing each report separately with a short introduction from the programme leader, Peter Kearns.

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