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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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Cedefop newsletter No 73 - September 2017

Here is the latest Cedefop newsletter:

UALL 2018 Annual Conference, Cambridge, 21 to 23 March - Call for Papers

The Annual Conference is the high point of the UALL year, and we are pleased that the 2018 Conference will be held at Downing College, Cambridge, between Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 March.

Making New Cities Out of Old - newCities.org

As several catastrophes hit Mexico, the United States and the Caribbean, Josef Konvitz writes about why it is so difficult to introduce major changes in cities undergoing reconstruction.  The following article appeared in the September issue of the Greenfield Cities Alliance Newsletter produced by the New Cities Foundation. The Alliance is well-represented in Africa, where the issues raised by this article are especially relevant.  

Congratulations to UNESCO Learning City Awards Recipients

PASCAL International Observatory congratulates sixteen cities on receiving a Learning City Award at the Third International Conference on Learning Cities, held in Cork, Ireland from 18-20 September.

The UNESCO Learning City Awards have been established to encourage and reward progress in developing learning cities around the world. UNESCO Institute of Lifelong learning stated that the following cities have made outstanding progress in implementing the Key Features of Learning Cities:

UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 2: May to August 2017

We are pleased to share the second issue of our newsletter for 2017.

Building a learning city is a collective and continuous journey. Amid various challenges, local governments are in the frontline of implementing education and lifelong learning, as well as achieving sustainable development for their communities.

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