The Chairman of the PASCAL Governing Board, Dr Josef Konvitz, issued the following statement today on the inauguration of the new program of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre, commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline the range of research currently underway in UK universities that connected with cities.

In his inaugural address to the 16^th Lok Sabha on June 9, 2014, the President Shri Pranab Mukherjee described the thrust of the new government in this principle—“Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”. The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, while speaking in the parliament on the motion of thanks to the President’s address on June 11, 2014, appealed to the nation that development should be a people’s movement.

I am writing to bring to your attention the report of a Policy Briefing conducted by the EU Centre at RMIT on the topic of Lifelong Learning Policies: Europe, Australia and the Place of Education in the Sustainable Development Goals post-2015 (featured below).

The Cultural Planning Forums in Victoria may be of interest to PASCAL subscribers and especially the network within the Learning Cities Network (LCN) concerned with Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

The forums are presented by the Cultural Development Network (CDN) in collaboration with the Arts and Cultural Committee, Municipal Association of Victoria, and the Melbourne City Council, Corangamite Shire Council, Gannawarra Shire Council, Mitchell Shire Council and Latrobe City Council.