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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Ukrainian visitors embrace PASCAL Learning Cities Project as a way of strengthening social cohesion

A group of professionals and students from Donetsk University have paid a weeklong visit to Glasgow to learn about how to improve their leadership structures and to find out more about the Learning City concept and how PASCAL Learning Cities can provide support. The visitors, who come from Donetsk State University which has been displaced from Donetsk City to the City of Mariupol as a result of political conflict in Eastern Ukraine.

Lifelong Learning and Innovation: UALL Conference 2019 - Call for papers

Our 2019 Conference Lifelong Learning and Innovation, 10-12 April, 2019, is being held in Telford, the home of the Industrial Revolution. In keeping with this the conference will focus on these three themes:

Belarusian cities support a creative economy for sustainable development

It was a great pleasure on behalf of PASCAL to speak at a conference focusing on the theme of ‘Learning cities for a creative economy and sustainable development’ held in the City of Vitebsk, the first officially designated Learning City in Belarus.

Briefing prepared for the European Parliament on SDGs

Please find featured below and attached a briefing prepared for the European Parliament's ENVI Committee prior to the High Level Political Forum in July 2018 - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) , New York, 16 - 18 July 2018.

UN Habitat Synthesis Report for SDG 11

As part of the recent United Nations High Level Political Forum on sustainable cities, UN Habitat produced a synthesis report on SDG 11 ‘sustainable cities and communities’.  The report provides a good overview of progress made so far.

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