Learning Regions

Datong Community College, Taipei - EcCoWell Leadership

Posted June 12, 2018 - 15:40 by Denise Reghenza...

Taipei has been at the forefront of Learning City development and are advancing EcCoWell2 objectives.  Datong Community College has been a leader in this.  Initially, President, Dr Eugenia Chang, and her staff worked with their district Rice Festival organisers to develop a range of complimentary learning experiences for citizens.  Recently, they have developed local actions through activities, lectures and workshops to extend and enhance learning in neighbourhoods, including 2 main initiatives:

PASCAL Briefing Paper 11 - Big Data, Lifelong Learning and Learning Cities: Promoting city-discourse on social inequalities in learning

Posted March 14, 2018 - 13:50 by Catherine Lido

*** KOREAN translation now available ***

The 11th Briefing Paper from PASCAL is now available in English, Korean and simplified Mandarin. It concerns the topic of Big Data and its relationship with learning cities and is written by Catherine Lido, Kate Reid and Mike Osborne from the PASCAL Centre for Europe in Glasgow.

Africa's Cities: Opening Doors to the World - World Bank

Posted March 27, 2017 - 05:46 by Francisco Javie...

The World Bank has just released the Report “Africa's Cities: Opening Doors to the World” (festured below and attached). This study, coordinated by Somik Vinay Lall, J. Vernon Henderson, and Anthony J. Venables addreses the question why economic growth in in Sub-Saharan Africa cities has not kept pace with rapid population growth in urban centers.

Paper in Mandarin by PASCAL Director from International Conference for Taipei Learning City

Posted January 7, 2017 - 13:45 by Pi-yun Yang

Please find feaured below and attached a copy of the paper presented by Professor Michael Osborne, Director of PASCAL in Europe, written with Dr Catherine Lido, at the recent International Conference of Taipei Learning City, which has been translated into Mandarin.

Emergence and Growth of Community Supported Enterprises - NIU Center for Governmental Studies

Posted November 28, 2016 - 22:26 by Norman Walzer

With support from the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, the NIU Center for Governmental Studies recently published a report, Emergence and Growth of Community Supported Enterprises describing how Community Supported Enterprises are organized and operate in the U.S.  The report authored by Norman Walzer and Jessica Sandoval, is featured in full below.

New Book about Rural Communities

Posted November 28, 2016 - 21:41 by Pat Inman

Briony Penn, PASCAL publication author, just got back from a 5 week long book tour for her latest book. Leaving the genre of children’s literature, her book, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan is the biography of a man who believed in getting into rural communities, talking to people and inspiring them about nature, conservation and science.

PASCAL Inclusion Workshop: Seniors as Lifelong Learners - barriers, strategies, outcomes, RMIT University, 30 November, 2015

Posted December 15, 2015 - 04:31 by Peter Kearns

The fourth PASCAL Inclusion Workshop on Seniors as Lifelong Learners was held in Melbourne on 30 November hosted by the RMIT EU Centre. The report of the workshop by Denise Reghenzani is featured below and attached.

Post-conference tours at 12th PASCAL Conference in Catania

Posted August 26, 2015 - 09:33 by Roberta Piazza

We have made arrangements with a local tour operator to offer special prices to Conference attendees wishing to take advantage of the spectacular locations close to Catania.

Discount on PASCAL Series at Manchester University Press for subscribers

Posted March 14, 2015 - 08:52 by Mike Osborne

We are pleased to announce that Manchester University Press will offer a discount of 20% to PASCAL subscribers to the following titles In the PASCAL Series on universities and lifelong learning:

European Challenges: The Baltic Outlook

Posted March 12, 2015 - 07:54 by Franny Martens
Mar 18 2015 12:00
Australia/Melbourne
RMIT, City campus, Pavilion 1, level 10, RMIT Design Hub
Corner Victoria and Swanston Streets
Melbourne

The EU Centre at RMIT in conjunction with the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges at the University of Melbourne, will host a seminar at RMIT on Wednesday, 18 March from 12-2pm, at which HE Andris Teikmanis, Ambassador of Latvia to Australia and New Zealand will be speaking on the topic of ‘European Challenges; the Baltic Outlook’.

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