Blogs

The Cities Learning Together conference is approaching rapidly. The European Union Centre at RMIT, PASCAL and the Hong Kong Institute of Education are very pleased to invite your participation. All the elements are now in place for an exciting and stimulating experience in Hong Kong in November.

A great deal of work has been done so far by many people and our conference partners: ASPBAE, ICAE , CITYNET, PRIA, EAFAE, APUCEN, and DVV (see details in attached booklet).

There is unusual heavy rain in many parts of the world in the past month; evidence for changing climate patterns?

The city of Cork has again shown its capacity for innovation by being the first city in Ireland to establish a Food Policy Council. This initiative is being linked to EcCoWell development in Cork, and will have cross representation between the EcCoWell planning group and the new Food Policy Council.

PASCAL welcomes Galway as the third Irish city to become a participant in the PIE exchanges of information and experience, joining Cork and Limerick. The Galway stimulus paper written by Evelyn Fanning, has a focus on Galway’s development as a WHO Healthy City.

The city of Cork will follow up on its innovative EcCoWell seminar in March during the Tenth Cork Lifelong Learning Festival by hosting an International Seminar on 26-27 September to examine the subject "Cities for the Future : Learning from the Global to the Local".  This will be a conference with a difference which will incorporate the conference, a marketplace for Ideas, site visits to local initiatives, and cultural experiences.