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Cedefop newsletter No 91 - June 2019

Here is the latest Cedefop newsletter:

British Council and the University of Glasgow join forces to provide training in Leadership Development in Ukraine - learning city spin-offs

The British Council has recently made an award to Donetsk State University of Management in the Ukraine to progress the field of leadership development. A Certificate has been awarded as part of a training programme which included a week-long visit to University of Glasgow from the Rector and Vice Rector of the university and three other staff. The visit to Glasgow provided an opportunity to learn from the experience of staff at Glasgow University and included lectures, workshops and visits within the School of Education. A cultural programme was also organised in the city.

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 103, Issue 1

In this issue we feature 6 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

  1. An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games - Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; Sutter, Matthia;
  2. Network Effects in Internal Migration - Laszlo Lorincz; Brigitta Nemeth;
  3. The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers - Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; Chávez, Mariana; Dean, Andre;
  4. Identity and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence - Sanjit Dhami; Emma Manifold; Ali al-Nowaihi;
  5. Immigration, Social Networks, and Occupational Mismatch - Sevak Alaverdyan; Anna Zaharieva;
  6. Ostracism in alliances of teams and individuals: Voting, exclusion, contribution, and earnings - Stephan Huber; Jochen Model; Silvio Städter.

Report on the International Symposium On Ageing Well and Public Service Delivery: Policy & Practice 15-16 June 2019 Beijing, China

Convened by Tsinghua University (Beijing) and a consortium of partners in other Universities, Ageing Centres, Associations and Public Organisations, the Ageing Well theme focussed on:

  • Building a health care policy system,
  • Cultivating professional personnel talents, and
  • Developing high quality health care services.

The urgency was stressed, i.e. to ensure healthy environments for ageing and to optimise public service delivery.

AI, Cities and Climate Change: Whoever Said It Would Be Easy? - NewCities, Josef Konvitz

Josef Konvitz, PASCAL Chair and Associate Fellow, Resilience, NewCities, attended a day-long conference on 21 May last month, sponsored by the NewCities Foundation, on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change. Held in the sumptuous grand hall of the Paris City Hall, the subject highlighted the importance of public actors and local innovators.

Building Good Sustainable Communities through the Learning City EcCoWell Approach

EcCoWell

EcCoWell was developed by the PASCAL International Observatory in 2012 (PIE), based on the experience of Taipei city, as an approach to developing learning cities in a holistic and cohesive manner. The emergence of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, with a similar requirement for holistic development has enhanced the significance of the EcCoWell experience.

 

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