Josef Konvitz, Chair of PASCAL International Observatory, has been appointed to the Scientific Committee of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. During the next four years, he will be responsible for several cities and a national network in the programme.

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In this final webinar of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow’s webinar series, Celebrating Social Justice Research in Education, we focus on Ethics, Religion and Values. The research presented will relate to the history of ideas, metatheory, principled scholarship, and theory building applied to contemporary issues of social justice and underpins the School’s approach to innovative and cross-disciplinary pedagogies.

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Please find a ‘save the date’ invitation for the virtual kick-off event for the Adult Learning and Education (ALE) campaign.

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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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In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

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Drawing on the input of 12 distinguished experts from different countries and disciplines, a report just published by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), entitled Embracing a culture of lifelong learning: Contribution to the Futures of Education initiative underlines that creating a global culture of lifelong learning will be key to addressing the challenges humanity is currently facing; ranging from the climate crisis to technological and demographic change, not to mention those posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inequalities it has exacerbated.

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This was the inaugural meeting of the network. The first matter discussed was the aim of the network and suggested topics (see http://lcn.pascalobservatory.org/networks/urban-rural).

There was a general discussion about the suggested topics. The two topics that were of most interest to follow up on were:

1. Regional Economic Development: Strategies that focus on promoting employment, entrepreneurship, and small business start-ups and development, and
2. Measures to combat changing demographics due to COVID-19 migration.

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The European Museums Academy met with the 'Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education Network' of PASCAL on the 3^rd March 2021  to discuss the organisation of a joint webinar with the  SoPHIA- Social Platform for Holistic Impact Assessment.

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