Meeting of the Alliance of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities, Joensu, 26th October 2021

In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Learning Cities in Yeon-su, Republic of Korea, we were very pleased to hold a meeting of the Alliance of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities on 26^th October 2021.

Mun, Seok-jin (Chair of APLC, Mayor of GNLC Seodaemun, Republic of Korea), Ko, Nam-seok (Co-chair & Secretary General of APLC, Mayor of GNLC Yeonsu, Host City of Fifth ICLC, Republic of Korea), Kwak, Sang Wook (Co-chair of APLC, Chair of Korean Association of Lifelong Learning Cities, Mayor of GNLC Osan, Republic of Korea)  were pleased to invite many international guests and to profile many members of the APLC, especially those cities inducted into the APLC’s Hall of Fame recently.

We were pleased that Professor Michael Osborne, Director of PASCAL Europe from the University of Glasgow has accepted the role as co-chair of the EAC (Expert Advisory Committee) of the APLC. We were also pleased that Professor Roberta Piazza, Associate Director of PASCAL Europe, from the University of Catania was able to join us that Peter Kearns, PASCAL Board Member has also joined the EAC.

The programme for the event is featured below and attached, and in a later posting we will provide access to some of the videos from our member cities.