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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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The Learning Region; A Critical Interpretation

Posted July 14, 2014 - 17:22

The ‘learning region’ discourse emerged from the debates of the neoliberal views of socio-economic and cultural change. These views stressed the overall trends of globalisation which had to transform the traditional economic, social and cultural institutions. In opposition of these views, the ‘learning region’ discourse pointed out the importance of locality.

Invitation to CLC Lecture Series - Creating Sustainable Cities

Posted July 11, 2014 - 10:23

The recently released Monocle's 2014 Quality of Life Survey saw several cities rise and fall in ranks as they measure up to be the World's 25 most liveable cities. what are the issues that are key for the quality of life in cities? What does a city need to mobilise a society's efforts towards sustainability?

Launch of Urban Solutions #5

Posted July 11, 2014 - 09:55

This special issue of Urban Solutions focuses on the World Cities Summit in June 2014 and its theme "liveable and Sustainable Cities: Common challenges, shared Solutions".

The Summit is where cities will look at the state of urban challenges today and identify principles of shared solutions applicable to cities spanning the range of development, socio-economic and political contexts.

ASEM Think Tanks' Dialogue Report

Posted July 10, 2014 - 09:46

In November 2013, PASCAL came together in Hong Kong with a range of partners from Asia and Europe to conduct its 11th conference on the topic of Cities Learning Together: Local Communities in the Sustainable and Healthy Learning City.

Hungarian Educational Research Journal - thematic issue on learning regions

Posted July 9, 2014 - 15:15

I am pleased to inform you that the Hungarian Educational Research Journal Vol 4, No 3, the thematic issue on learning regions, now is available at this link.

This issue contains a number of articles which should be of interest to PASCAL subcribers, including papers by Balazs Nemeth, member of the PASCAL Advisory Council and Mike Osborne, Director of PASCAL in Europe.

 

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