Toowoomba in the Darling Downs region of southern Queensland, the Australian community education and lifelong learning movement, and the global adult education and lifelong learning community, have lost a great leader and quiet achiever with the death this month of Glen Postle.

Glen made a huge and lasting contribution to our understanding of people living together across social groups, roles and especially generations, within the academic and locality-based communities, and across disciplinary and managerial boundaries and levels. His communications are peppered with wisdom drawn from many eras and cultures; yet his work evolved, was tested and applied on the ground, in the community, through conversation and joint action.

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PASCAL and its Learning Cities Networks (LCN) initiative were delighted to be co-sponsors with the University of Pécs and its Learning City-Region Forum of an International Conference on 20th September, 2018, on the theme of Learning Cities and Culture Working Together. Also sponsoring the event were the Municipality of Pécs, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

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The EU Centre at RMIT, Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne, Swinburne University, and Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA) are pleased to invite you to the Melbourne launch of three books:

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Australia is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 28% of residents were born in another country and almost 50% have at least one parent born elsewhere. The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network, has recently developed a Cultural Competence Program (CCP) online training course for individuals and organisations.

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The UALL Conference 2019, 10-12th April - will be held in Telford, the home of the Industrial Revolution and in keeping with this, the Conference will focus on these three themes:

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On the 23^rd July, the EU Centre was delighted to host the launch of Jean Monnet Network on the EU’s Role in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific.

Jointly funded by a Jean Monnet Activities grant and RMIT University, the Network formalises the relationships amongst researchers, policy think tanks and Non-Government Organisations who share a primary interest in enhancing the effective contribution of the EU to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Asia Pacific.

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Following a meeting during the recent 15th PASCAL Conference in Suwon, Denise has prepared a report on EcCoWell 2 projects. The EcCoWell 2 projects  were inaugurated in 2017 following a review of the EcCoWell experience for the PASCAL Board which added happiness and entrepreneurship to the objectives of EcCoWell.

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We warmly welcome you to What I Know Is 2: a 2-Day International Conference on Data Literacy, Open Data and Knowledge-Building Communities in Stirling, UK on 27/28 September 2018. This is organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) funded, Life in Data Network . ***NOW A FREE EVENT***

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Join us at this one-day event bringing together civic society representatives, and communities of interest to explore and workshop open datasets, data visualisation and data-driven decision making for the public good. This event, facilitated by Life in Data and hosted in partnership with Creative Dundee, focuses on four key themes highly relevant to our civic lives today:

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We are delighted to announce that the 11th Knowledge Cities World Summit (KCWS-2018) will be held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in November 2018, sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands as a contribution to their aim to promote Knowledge-based Development in this autonomous region.

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