As the year 2020 comes to a close, I wish to thank you all for your interest in and actions to promote lifelong learning across the globe. I thank the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning’s partners for their outstanding collaboration over the past twelve months.

The co-leads for the PASCAL International Observatory strands surrounding cultural activities and engagement met on 11 November via zoom in order to update activities of the group in two main strands- namely the Learning Cities Network (LCN) and the Special Interest Group (SIG) in this area.