Leone Wheeler's blog

Lara Pugh, Project Leader Learning City for Wollongong City Council, NSW, Australia, a member of the Australian Learning Communities Network, is keen to learn about running a local learning festival. Lara recently interviewed members of the LearnWest Learning Network about how they went about organising their recent Learning for Earning Festival.

Please find featured below and attached the Winter 2020 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN):

For the past three years members of the Hume Learning Community, City of Hume, Melbourne, Victoria, have been working as a Community of Practice to trial a cost/benefit analysis approach to measure the impact of individual learning city programs. This approach is adapted from the Robin Hood Foundation in New York.

One of the speakers at the next PASCAL Conference in Catania, Sicily from 7-9 October 2015 will be Josef Konvitz, PASCAL Chair, who will be introducing his new book, Cities and Crisis.

We are very pleased to announce that the next PASCAL conference will be hosted from 7-9 October 2015 by the University of Catania in Italy with the title, Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers, and under the co-ordination of PASCAL Associate Director in Europe, Professor Roberta Piazza.