On 10 October 2015, Roberta Piazza of Catania University and Associate Director of PASCAL, and its associates, Dermot Coughlan of University of Limerick together with Anna Hansen and Henrik Zipsane of Jamtli Foundation represented PASCAL International Observatory at a seminar in the old research library in the municipality of Acireale, a community just North of Catania with about 60,000 inhabitants and a glorious past with 17^th – 19^th Century churches and palaces as well as diverse museum collections.

I am very much looking forward to the 12th PASCAL conference in Catania where I am presenting in the cultural strand. I hope that I may be able to provide something there as my experience from PASCAL comes from my dual position – working both as a researcher for Linköping University and The Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning & Creativity, and as managing director for the Jamtli Foundation which primarily runs one larger and three smaller museums in the region of Jämtland in the middle of Sweden.

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.