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Making a Commonwealth Games Legacy Meaningful - a new International Legacy Network is launched

PASCAL, with links to Melbourne and Brisbane, Montreal and Vancouver, Barcelona, Helsinki, Glasgow and Manchester - all cities on 3 continents which have hosted or will host the Commonwealth Games or other mega-events such as the Olympics - can expect to play a role in developing the International Legacy Network, described in the attached documentation, and in building a tool kit to use the lessons of experience and facilitate knowledge exchange.

Debating the 2014 Legacy: What will it mean for Glasgow?

What will Glasgow’s 2014 legacy be? While the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are first and foremost a festival of sport and a showcase of the city and nation, the Games are underpinned by expectations that they deliver various long-term legacy outcomes.

Inauguration of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

The Chairman of the PASCAL Governing Board, Dr Josef Konvitz, issued the following statement today on the inauguration of the new program of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

Ripples - Winter 2014 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network

Please find attached the winter 2014 newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network. This includes reports of the recent Learning Cities workshops in Frankston, Canberra and Townsville, at which Mike Osborne, PASCAL director in Europe, spoke (and much more).

Connecting Research with Cities

In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre, commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline the range of research currently underway in UK universities that connected with cities.

Sustainia 100 reports

A useful source of innovations that often involve entrepreneurial action may be found in the annual Sustainia 100 reports. These reports give 100 selected innovations across 10 sectors. The sectors are cities, energy, food, IT, education, health, resources etc. There are 10 selected innovations in each sector. Browsing these you may find good examples of entrepreneurial action you can follow up on.

Cultural Planning Forums Across Victoria: second and third forums – June/July 2014

The Cultural Planning Forums in Victoria may be of interest to PASCAL subscribers and especially the network within the Learning Cities Network (LCN) concerned with Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

The forums are presented by the Cultural Development Network (CDN) in collaboration with the Arts and Cultural Committee, Municipal Association of Victoria, and the Melbourne City Council, Corangamite Shire Council, Gannawarra Shire Council, Mitchell Shire Council and Latrobe City Council.

New Projects in Glasgow and Ostersund

Attached you will find details of initiatives that have received funding in Glasgow and Ostersund and which I hope will be of interest to you, and especially those within PASCAL's Learning Cities Networks theme of Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

EcCoWell Cork - 7th Heaven (Meeting)

The most recent EcCoWeLL session in Cork on Thurs 5th June went very well, with 74 attending, confined to those who had participated in previous EcCoWeLL events.

Glasgow - Future City Demonstrator city - Invitation to an event on 24 July

Glasgow is the UK's Future City Demonstrator city and has developed considerable expertise in the design, development and application of future city solutions across a range of urban challenges.

These are to be found in big data, open data, transportation, energy, public safety, health, environment, communications, demography and climate change.

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