In this posting, we report on the PASCAL EcCoWell Community Recovery Program, which was conducted from March to October 2020 with attached an extensive edited report from Peter Kearns and Denise-Reghenzani-Kearns. The programme was developed to test whether EcCoWell ideas on integration and partnership would have value in supporting community recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Five learning cities, two learning neighbourhoods, and two universities participated in the program. Short profiles of participants are given in Appendix 1.

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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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We are respectfully inviting you and your colleagues to support and participate in our online series on Urban Resilience Practices from Northeast Asian Cities, this coming first week of December: 

• First Session. Urban Resilience Lectures, Dec. 1, 2020, Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., Korean Standard Time;
• Second Session. Evaluation Frameworks, Dec. 3, 2020, Thursday, 2:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m., Korean Standard Time; 
• Third Session. Best Resilience Practices from Northeast Asia, Dec. 3, 2020, Thursday, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., Korean Standard Time
  

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Following on from the inaugural Global Learning Festival (GLF) offered from 1-4 September 2020, in late October 2020, core learning city participants in the GLF Working Group met for a reflections session, led by Dr Robbie Guevera, PASCAL Observatory Board member and Associate Professor,  International Development Program at RMIT.

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More than ever this year, technology has impacted almost every aspect of our life, with education being no exception. In the November edition of the Network News, the Work and Learning Network focus on the ways we use technology. 

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