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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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In honor of International Holocaust Day 2021 - Modiin and the FVG Region, Italy

Posted January 30, 2021 - 06:26

The city of Modiin Maccabim Reut, Israel, and the FVG Region, Italy, continue to strengthen ties and cooperation between Learning Cities, to create a natural connection for the Younger generation, the generation of the future. In order to enhance a multi-cultural dialogue between Learning Communities, a dialogue establishing a bridge of inclusivity, overcoming cultural differences, and connecting past – present and future, in order to promote humanistic values that we all share, as a Global Learning Society.

UNESCO International Day of Education

Posted January 25, 2021 - 08:17

Professor Mike Osborne, Director of PASCAL in Europe was kept busy by Italian colleagues on 25 January in celebration of UNESCO International Day of Education on 24 January with a Lectio Magistralis input at the UNESCO Club of Lucca, as well as being part of the celebrations of the University of Catania’s Department of Education, organised by Professor Roberta Piazza, PASCAL Deputy Director,  at which he gave this recorded message:

PIMA Bulletin No. 34 - January 2021

Posted January 25, 2021 - 07:36

We begin this ambiguous New Year on an upbeat note: Chris Brooks demurs at the prevailing doom and gloom with which we farewelled 2020, noting causes for collective pride. Yet there is also a blunt closing challenge: in his rural village ‘flat-earthers’ display ‘thoughtless thinking and a failure to identify and examine the facts’. ‘Surely this is a major educational failure. What should we do?’ Brooks asks.

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 122, Issue 3

Posted January 25, 2021 - 06:35

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”):

Opportunities to Start 2021 Off Right | Placemaking Weekly

Posted January 24, 2021 - 09:24

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.

 

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