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Cities After COVID-19 | The Big Rethink replays and The Big Picture trending articles

The current pandemic reveals contrasting approaches from governments and leaders to keep societies afloat. What we know for sure is that it is time to reflect on how we can achieve a more resilient and sustainable future, instead of returning back to the norms we were accustomed to pre-COVID-19. Therefore, for the past month, we have been sitting down with experts to discuss how cities are coping and what measures can be set in motion to improve our future urban environment.

COV-AID: Engaged Universities Respond to COVID-19

The Talloires Network is excited to extend their invitation to join the second episode of their webinar series, “Adapting to the New Reality: Civically Engaged Universities Offer Strategies and Hope,” on Monday, May 11, 2020 (9:00-10:00 EDT). The series aims to serve as a beacon of light, providing uplifting content and strengthening public support for universities.

Competing to Contribute to 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. In this edition,  to draw attention to the potential of public spaces and lighter, quicker, cheaper placemaking in Nairobi, Kenya, the Changing Faces Competition (CFC) challenged over 100 community groups to transform neglected spaces into vibrant, safe, and healthy community places.

Cedefop newsletter No 99 - April 2020 - Coronavirus crisis and Cedefop’s related work

The corona crisis must be dealt with now, its economic fall-out must be forecast now, and the recovery must be planned for and supported now. Because of its pivotal role in the fields of labour market, vocational training and skills intelligence, Cedefop will have to deliver critical contributions to the post-coronavirus recovery efforts of the European Union – starting now. That is why we have started generating coronavirus-related results and findings in our field – helping policy-makers to assess the impact of the crisis on VET systems and how the latter can be used to overcome the former. Our first outputs are collected in this newsletter.

Rethinking Sustainable Learning Communities for Extraordinary Times | An EcCoWell 2 Community Recovery Program

Today PASCAL inaugurates a new programme directed at the recovery of communities from the coronavirus epidemic.  The term “community” has been used a lot in the media in reference to the social context in which people are at higher risk of getting infected. We are interested in “community” as the social context in which people cope with the pandemic in ways that make the places where they live stronger and more resilient.

Building Inclusive Resilient Learning Neighbourhoods in EcCoWell 2 Community Recovery Program

The first of the six monthly stimulus papers on key areas in the EcCoWell 2 Community Recovery Program has been released today. The paper titled Building Inclusive Resilient Learning Neighbourhoods in EcCoWell 2  covers innovations in local neighbourhoods guided by EcCoWell 2 integration ideas.

 

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