In this posting, we report on the PASCAL EcCoWell Community Recovery Program, which was conducted from March to October 2020 with attached an extensive edited report from Peter Kearns and Denise-Reghenzani-Kearns. The programme was developed to test whether EcCoWell ideas on integration and partnership would have value in supporting community recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Five learning cities, two learning neighbourhoods, and two universities participated in the program. Short profiles of participants are given in Appendix 1.

Following on from the inaugural Global Learning Festival (GLF) offered from 1-4 September 2020, in late October 2020, core learning city participants in the GLF Working Group met for a reflections session, led by Dr Robbie Guevera, PASCAL Observatory Board member and Associate Professor,  International Development Program at RMIT.