Special Issue on “SMART CITY LEARNING: OPPORTUNITIES and CHALLENGES” to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998).

On behalf of PASCAL we post below a response made by our colleague Chris Duke on the campaigning website 38 Degrees with which we are sure that PASCAL subscribers will wish to echo. We could add many more examples of terrorist acts even in the last week, such as that of the 224 Russians most likely murdered over the Sinai desert, and as Chris says our hearts are with all victims of such atrocities.

PASCAL's social media profile continues to rise! It was particularly pleasing to have been added to the list maintained by the high-profile New York based Project for Public Places of over 100 people and organisations who they regard as being leaders in the placemaking movement.  PASCAL has now been 'listed'  over 180 times by organisations and individuals on Twitter as an organisation whose tweets on topics of interest they wish to follow.

We are currently involved in a project called DISCUSS (see http://www.discuss-community.eu), which is supported by PASCAL about the development of communities of practice in lifelong learning. We know that many PASCAL subscribers have had many years of experience in such communities and wonder if some of you would be willing to write a short blog (just one page of response only is needed) about some of your experiences in the context of projects in the field of lifelong learning.

Following discussions at the recent PASCAL conference in Catania I have been invited to profile the Belgium Campus of which I am Rector, and our Bothlale Innovation Village.