An ambitious program within the 2016 PASCAL International Conference: Learning Cities 2040, was the collation of the 17 Learning City Showcase Profiles developed by delegate teams participating from Asia (Beijing, Taipei, Erbil, Modi'in, Duhok, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Asia-Europe (Sino-German Initiative [Essen & Changzhou]), Europe (Cork, Bristol, Glasgow, Swansea Bay City Region, Limerick, Karlstad, Pécs, Acireale, Arbroath), and Oceania (Australian Learning Communities Network).

A report (featured below) from the co-ordinator of the Cork Healthy City initiative, Denise Cahill, to Cork City Council shows the progress that the Healthy City initiative has made since becoming a WHO Healthy City in January 2012. This has gone along with active participation in the Cork EcCoWell initiative directed at achieving a more holistic to city development.

The 13th PASCAL International Conference will be held at the University of Glasgow on 3-5 June, 2016. The conference will focus on future directions for Learning Cities at a time of significant challenge and opportunity for enterprising Learning Cities.

The Rolling Workshop approach which has been successfully applied by the Harnessing Cultural Policy Network will now be applied by the LCN's Inclusion Network with an Inclusion Rolling Workshop which commenced in Townsville on 4 May. The Townsville Workshop will be followed by workshops in Glasgow (early July), Bristol (15 October), and Melbourne (2 December).

PASCAL welcomes Bristol to Networks as a participant in the Inclusion and Entrepreneurial Learning Cities Networks. Bristol recently took steps to develop as a learning city and has established a high level Partnership Board which will hold its first meeting shortly.