A report entitled, Learning for global health in cities community resilience and the strengthening of learning cities, was written by SHLC team members Mike Osborne, Yulia Nesterova and Ramjee Bhandari as a background paper for UNESCO’s 5th International Conference on Learning Cities held in Yoensu, Republic of Korea from 27-30 October 2021.

In his presentation to the conference within the strand, Strengthening community resilience and the resilience of local learning systems, Mike Osborne summarised the key issues that emerged in the course of analysing responses from an analysis of 25 cases of city responses to COVID-19 through an educational lens.

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The Irish Network of Learning Cities (INLC) is proud to present ‘Conversations with Learners’, a fantastic free event that seeks to promote learning and diverse learner stories from across the island of Ireland.

This online event will feature an introduction to each of the five INLC learning cities and showcase a learner’s story relevant to the themes of widening access and the learner centred approaches needed in a learning city.

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The Centre for Local Economic Development at the University of Johannesburg, the host of PASCAL Africa has published papers from 14th PASCAL International Conference held in Pretoria in 2017under the title, Learning for a Better Future - Perspectives on Higher Education, Cities, Business and Civil Society. The book, edited by Marius Venter and Suzanne Hattingh, provides perspectives on a range of subjects relevant to the role of learning in progressing towards a better , sustainable future across higher education, cities, business and civil society in a context of turbulent change.

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This issue of Ripples features Wyndham Learning City receiving a UNESCO Learning City Award at the Fifth Conference on Learning Cities in Yeonsu (Republic of Korea) 2021; stories from our RMIT University intern students; and a climate change case study from Gwydir Learning Region.

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With the adoption of the Yeonsu Declaration at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), UNESCO learning cities from around the world pledged to place lifelong learning for health and the development of resilience at the centre of their agenda.

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We are very pleased to report the publication of the book, Inclusive lifelong learning in cities: policies and practices for vulnerable groups, by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning with three major contributions from PASCAL colleagues:

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I would like to share with subscribers to PASCAL our reflections from the University of Catania on University Third Mission and Local Responsibility. Our paper was recently published on both the Global and the Africa editions of University World News at this link. We welcome your comments.

From the aricle...

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Here is the the latest news from GUNi (Global University Network for Innovation):

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In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Learning Cities in Yeon-su, Republic of Korea, we were very pleased to hold a meeting of the Alliance of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities on 26^th October 2021.

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PASCAL subscribers will read with interest this new briefing paper from UNESCO IIEP from their Cities and Education 2030 programme. In a further phase of work, we are collaborating with IIEP through our Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities and Neighbourhood partners in Bangladesh, Philippines and Rwanda, and LCN city, Medellin.

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