Free Online Event | 'SDGs, Lifelong Learning and Learning Cities', Thurs 3 Sept at 4pm
Sep 3 2020 16:30
Australia/Melbourne
*** ONLINE SEMINAR ***
124 La Trobe St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
The European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University invites you to this special online event where colleagues from RMIT and PASCAL (Place And Social Capital And Learning) will start a conversation on how learning cities can make an integral contribution to the United Nations Global Agenda.
This online event on 3 September is part of the 'Global Virtual Learning Festival' hosted by Wyndham and Melton City Councils (Melbourne, Australia) on 1-4 September 2020.
ONLINE EVENT
SDGS, LIFELONG LEARNING AND LEARNING CITIES
The European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University invites you to this special online event where colleagues from RMIT and PASCAL (Place And Social Capital And Learning) will start a conversation on how learning cities can make an integral contribution to the United Nations Global Agenda.
This online event on 3 September is part of the 'Global Virtual Learning Festival' hosted by Wyndham and Melton City Councils (Melbourne, Australia) on 1-4 September 2020.
Guest Speakers
Sir Alan Tuckett OBE British Adult Education Specialist and Campaigner Professor of Education at the University of Wolverhampton Fmr Chief Executive (UK) National Institute of Adult Continuing Education Fmr President International Council for Adult Education
Professor Bruce Wilson European Union Centre of Excellence RMIT University
Dr Maren Klein European Union Centre of Excellence RMIT University
Dr Leone Wheeler Hon Chair Australian Learning Community Network (ALCN) Independent Academic and Researcher
Facilitator Associate Professor Robbie Guevara School of Global, Urban and Social Studies RMIT University
When Thursday, 3 September 2020, 4 pm – 5 pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
You are invited to register now and we will send you the event link closer to the date.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION One of the significant achievements of the United Nations’ agenda for global transformation, adopted in September 2015, was the recognition in Sustainable Development Goal 4 of the importance of promoting lifelong learning. Other goals, such as those to do with Health and with Cities, echoed the value of lifelong learning in the importance placed on all citizens having better understanding of these issues and of the implications to their own practices. Five years since the Goals were adopted, the challenge of gaining better support and commitment to lifelong learning seems to be just as great as ever.
Learning cities are one way of recognising and operationalising the power of lifelong learning and supporting not only the aims behind SDG 4, but the whole agenda for transformation. How can learning cities make an integral contribution to the UN’s Global Agenda?
European Union Centre of Excellence Social and Global Studies Centre RMIT University, Melbourne
The European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University is funded through grants from the European Union Jean Monnet Programme and RMIT University.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.
