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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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Meeting Notes: Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives - 23 September 2021

Posted October 5, 2021 - 12:44

The highlight of the 6th meeting of the Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives Network within PASCAL’s Learning Cities Networks (LCN) on 23 September was a presentation about the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs (IIRA): building the capacity of community leaders and policy makers.

ALCN Ripples September Newsletter

Posted October 4, 2021 - 13:29

In this issue of Ripples we pay tribute to Dr. Ken Thompson, Chair of the Hume Global Learning Community, friend and Executive member of ALCN. We also report on the results of the recent Wyndham Learning Festival and entrepreneurial learning in the City of Hume.

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 131, Issue 1

Posted October 4, 2021 - 13:21

In this issue we feature 7 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

Announcing This Year’s Clarity Parks Project™ Grantees | Placemaking Weekly

Posted October 3, 2021 - 14:08

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.

Learning for a better future

Posted September 28, 2021 - 22:49

The role of learning cities in meeting today’s challenges for a better future has been a dominant theme in PASCAL work on learning throughout the period 2017 to 2021. This theme has been given urgency and direction by developments during this period, especially the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while demographic change with ageing populations, the growing impact of the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, and the pace of change, in their cumulative impact have brought this sense of a time of disruption and turbulence with the world out of control.

 

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