You are cordially invited to attended the Scottish Cities Knowledge Centre’s Ideas Forum: ‘Infrastructure Needs of the Knowledge Economy', to be held in Glasgow's Lighthouse on Friday, 24th April 2015.
Subscribers may be interested in the lastest issue of Urban Solutions from the Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore. The topic is Active Mobility, a topic of interest to many of my colleagues in the Urban Big Data Centre here in Glasgow.
As part of my involvement in the Kettering Foundation and Talloires Networks international collaborative research partnership into studying Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement, I along with my community partner Nghomes (Margaret Layden) was invited to participate in the Network's International Leaders conference “Live Engagement, Transform Lives” held in South Africa in December 2014.
The Policy Profile, featured below and attached, reports the encouraging results from a Center for Governmental Studies inquiry into the near-term prospects for the aging business districts in Illinois’ medium and small cities and villages.
Bruce Wilson, Director of PASCAL, was in Brisbane on Sunday 16 November where the EU centre that he directs at RMIT co-sponsored an event with the President of the European Council (Herman van Rompuy) and the new EC Vice President Dombrovskis. Here he is seen greeting President van Rompuy.
Mike Osborne and John Tibbitt make a compelling case in PASCAL Policy Briefing 5 that connecting adult education and place is a vital task of learning cities. They moreover give a useful list of policy drivers for this purpose. However, in looking around it is difficult to see where this is happening so that the need exists to probe the barriers and opportunities further to identify necessary steps in forging this desired nexus.
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During 2014, public concern about terrorism and debate about measures to address extremism and terrorism have increased considerably.
In November 2014, representatives of the European Union and the Australian Government will meet for a Policy Dialogue on Counter-Terrorism and Security. The Dialogue will be an opportunity for sharing views on shared threats and on opportunities for a coordinated public policy response.
The importance of adult education has been affirmed in recent policy documents in several countries, justified in terms of its benefits to individuals and the wider benefits society draws from having a better educated population. Rarely is policy on adult education tied in to policies on the development of place, especially to current interest in the development of learning cities. This paper identifies policy drivers essential for embedding learning in the processes of learning cities.
What will Glasgow’s 2014 legacy be? While the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are first and foremost a festival of sport and a showcase of the city and nation, the Games are underpinned by expectations that they deliver various long-term legacy outcomes.
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