Blogs by Theme - Learning Regions

City Health 2013 - the 2nd City Health International Conference in Glasgow

Posted June 26, 2013 - 17:20 by Mike Osborne

Given the interests of PIE in Healthy Cities and the emphasis that Peter Kearns has made concerning this facet of the learning city within the EcCoWell model, and the strand of interest that we are trying to develop for the 11th PASCAL Conference in Hong Kong, this event in Glasgow may be of considerable interest to subscribers. We invite you to take a look at City Health 2013 in Glasgow from 4-5 November, which has many overlaps with the interests of PASCAL.

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Conference of European Cross-border and Interregional City Networks (CECICN)

Posted June 21, 2013 - 18:33 by John Tibbitt

Subscribers may be interested in this network of cities in Europe. The Conference of European Cross-border and Interregional City Networks (CECICN) was born in 2010. Its objective is to boost territorial cooperation among border cities in Europe and to reinforce the message concerning the importance of territorial cooperation.

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Dalai Lama Endorses the International Compassionate Cities Campaign: "Highly necessary, very important!"

Posted June 15, 2013 - 16:31 by Shirley Walters

On May 19th, 2013, Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville introduced the Dalai Lama to a crowd of more than 15,000 in Louisville, KY. During the event, Mayor Fischer spoke about Louisville's Compassionate City campaign, reported that the city had signed the Charter for Compassion, and described how people from all walks of life have come together to awaken compassion in every aspect of life.

A particularly inspiring moment came when the Dalai Lama said…

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Learning Communities for Literacy in Canada

Posted May 17, 2013 - 09:49 by Ron Faris

A whole issue of À Lire en ligne, the magazine of Réseau pour le développement de l’alphabétisme et des compétences in Canada in 2010 was devoted to learning communities and is now available online. The magazine in its complete form is only available in French, with a large number of articles, translated into English.

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Gauteng City-Region Observatory

Posted April 23, 2013 - 22:57 by Mike Osborne

Having been in South Africa last week I was alerted to the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, and was pleased to see that it includes amongst its work a project on Transformation in Higher Education, which examines of ''how the concept of a ‘learning region’ may be applied to the Gauteng City-Region (GCR), through the institutional vehicle of the region’s higher education institutions''. More is found through the preceding hotlinks.