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).

Glasgow was one of the first cities to join the Resilient Cities programme supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and has now published its Resilience Strategy, the first UK city to do so. The approach taken by the City to the development of the Strategy was one of the features of the City's presentation at the PASCAL Learning Cities conference in June.

Centres for Third Age Education ( CTAE) is a project  which is supporting the development of human capital to promote social inclusion of older people  in  Azerbaijan, Russia and the Ukraine through formal and informal learning. The aim is to encourage older people  to participate more fully  in society.

The project has  focused on the setting up of Centres for Third Age Education (CTAE)  and the training of staff to work in these centres.

The project is funded through the  TEMPUS programme of the European Union.

For the past three years members of the Hume Learning Community, City of Hume, Melbourne, Victoria, have been working as a Community of Practice to trial a cost/benefit analysis approach to measure the impact of individual learning city programs. This approach is adapted from the Robin Hood Foundation in New York.

Professor Sue Jackson, one of our long standing members and an ‘old’ friend of UALL, is retiring at the end of September from Birkbeck, hence the availability of this post.