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THE: Pandemic 'will drive universities into lifelong education'

The coronavirus will push universities around the world to embrace lifelong education in a dramatic "market shift" as they seek a way out of an "existential crisis", according to two leading experts on longevity.

Learning From Seoul to Control COVID-19: Transparency, Accountability, Solidarity

Greetings from CityNet Secretariat. It has been over two months since the WHO declared COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Accordingly, many of our member cities have initiated total lockdown and taken a forceful pause on overall economic activities. It led many of those cities under lockdown to struggle with keeping a balance between following social distancing and keeping the nationwide economy afloat.

Learning Cities COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice | A Learning Cities Webinar Series

The aims of this webinar series are first to highlight important and challenging aspects of learning city development, drawing on recent research and development work in PASCAL and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and second to demonstrate the practical application of successful approaches in learning cities to address the issues described by offering a conceptual dialogue. In so doing, the intention will be to build the capacity in learning cities to take forward their own responses and approaches to the challenges they face.

Promoting mental health and well-being in EcCoWell2 communities | Stimulus paper

The second stimulus paper for the PASCAL EcCoWell 2 Community Recovery Program is now available. This is on “Mental health and well-being”, featured below.

Webinars on Urban-Rural Linkages in the light of COVID-19 Pandemic

UN Habitat are conducting a series of Webinars on Urban Rural Linkages. The aim of these Webinars are to ‘exchange information and learn from the efforts of different actors to overcome this crisis and enhance post-crisis recovery actions by bringing a focus to urban-rural linkages and integrated territorial approaches.’

The Recovery Will Happen in Public Space | Placemaking Weekly

This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement. Last week, 25 million Americans returned to public life. As more and more governors in the US relax their stay-at-home orders and restrictions on businesses, that number will only grow, even as coronavirus cases around the country remain higher than public health experts would prefer. We are at a precarious moment as a country, where we must balance safety and recovery.

 

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