Josef Konvitz, PASCAL Chair and Associate Fellow, Resilience, NewCities, attended a day-long conference on 21 May last month, sponsored by the NewCities Foundation, on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change. Held in the sumptuous grand hall of the Paris City Hall, the subject highlighted the importance of public actors and local innovators.

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EcCoWell was developed by the PASCAL International Observatory in 2012 (PIE), based on the experience of Taipei city, as an approach to developing learning cities in a holistic and cohesive manner. The emergence of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, with a similar requirement for holistic development has enhanced the significance of the EcCoWell experience.

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Many congratulations to Prof Balazs Nemeth, Associate Director of PASCAL in Europe, who has been elected to become president of the European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN). This is a very well-deserved honour and PASCAL looks forward to continuing to work with EUCEN under the leadership of Professor Nemeth.

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We’re very pleased to be able to report that PASCAL Briefing Paper 16, Learning to be as the core of learning in later life, written by Peter Kearns, is now available in Mandarin (featured below and attached).

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The UALL Awards ceremony took place at the formal dinner of the 2019 UALL Conference, Lifelong Learning and Innovation, and were awarded by our Chair, The Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil.

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