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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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PASCAL Briefing Paper 13 - Learning Later: responding to the evolving educational needs of older people - Mark,Talmage and Knopf

Posted March 30, 2018 - 10:23

Please find attached in English, Mandarin and Korean, PASCAL Briefing Paper 13 entitled, Learning Later: responding to the evolving educational needs of older people. It has been written by Rob Mark, PASCAL Learning Cities Project Coordinator and Honorary Senior Research Fellow,  Glasgow University, UK & Dublin City University, Ireland, Craig A. Talmage, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, USA, Richard C. Knopf, Professor, Arizona State University, USA.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 12 - The coming revolution in Public Services: What it means for Cities and Universities - Josef Konvitz

Posted March 24, 2018 - 15:52

We are pleased to publish the lastest of our Briefing Paper. This paper bt Chaor of the PASCAL Board, Professor Josef Konvitz, is entitled, The coming revolution in Public Services: What it means for Cities and Universities. Below is an Executive Summary.

Vison Sofia

Posted March 24, 2018 - 14:45

The long term development strategy for Sofia and the region is an initiative of the Sofia Municipality, which started at the end of 2016 with the objective of creating a system of interaction, and analysis of the current condition of Sofia.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 11 - Big Data, Lifelong Learning and Learning Cities: Promoting city-discourse on social inequalities in learning

Posted March 14, 2018 - 12:50

*** KOREAN translation now available ***

The 11th Briefing Paper from PASCAL is now available in English, Korean and simplified Mandarin. It concerns the topic of Big Data and its relationship with learning cities and is written by Catherine Lido, Kate Reid and Mike Osborne from the PASCAL Centre for Europe in Glasgow.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 10 - Developing holistic and integrated learning cities: Health and EcCoWell

Posted February 13, 2018 - 13:26

PASCAL developed the EcCoWell concept in 2012 as an approach to holistic and integrated development in learning cities. Whilst the concept integrates environment, health and well-being, economy, and community with lifelong learning, the core of EcCoWell development up to now has focussed on the integration of health, learning, and environment with community building. The cities of Cork and Taipei have been leaders in applying EcCoWell concepts in their development.

 

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