The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Awards for learning cities 2019 have been announced. 10 cities have been judged to have made significant progress in promoting quality education and lifelong learning possibilities for all, they are: 

Please find a link to an interesting blog from our colleagues in the Fundación CYD, which subscribers interested in the third mission of universities might wish to read.

PASCAL Observatory’s 2018 International Conference in Suwon, Korea was a beehive of lively learners and lively ideas. PASCAL interest in place and learning cities is neatly captured by Waltraut Ritter’s reflection in PIMA Bulletin No. 21 on visiting Suwon City itself:

Wherever we live, the level of anxiety about the future is probably greater now than it was a year ago.  But let’s remember what PASCAL is: a global perspective on local possibilities.  I want to emphasize the word “possibilities”: These are limited by our imagination and creativity.  The populists want change too: they do not want poverty, but they want to undo globalization which has lifted people out of poverty; they do not want disease, but they want to block the efforts of governments and science to co-operate; they do not want ignorance but they do not question their assumptions.