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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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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.

PASCAL delegation at the Third Global Learning Cities Network conference in Cork, 17-19 Sept, 2017

The PASCAL Observatory was delighted to have been invited by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, with whom it has a Memorandum of Understanding related to lifelong learning, to send a delegation to the Third Global Learning Cities Network conference in Cork from 17-19 September 2017.

PASCAL Associate Henrik Zipzane elected President of AEOM

We are pleased to report that on August 24, longstanding PASCAL Associate Henrik Zipzane was elected President of the Association of European Open Air Museums (AEOM). The AEOM is related as an independent section of ICOM and associated member in Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO).

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