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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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Strengthening community-university research partnerships: Global perspectives – a book launch

In the following video promotion, Professor Budd Hall, Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility, talks about the book Strengthening community-university research partnerships: Global perspectives:

Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) Newsletter Vol. 2, Special Issue - 2nd International Conference on Learning Cities: A taste of the Conference

As there are only 18 days to go until the 2nd International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), we are now issuing our last call for registration. To date, more than 500 participants, including mayors, city representatives and representatives of international organizations, the private sector, NGOs and academia, have registered to help shape the future of learning cities.

Call for Papers: Open City: Approaches, Criteria, Practices, October 23, 2015 at Ural Federal University

The scientific group of Ural Federal University “Open City: from theoretical issues towards innovative projecting” kindly invites you to participate at the scientific conference:

Communities in Action – Lifelong Learning for Sustainable Development

“Community Learning Centres will play a more important role in sustainable development in the future,” says Arne Carlsen, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

This handbook identifies principles and policy mechanisms to advance community-based learning for sustainable development, based on the commitments endorsed by the participants of the Kominkan-CLC International Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, which was held in Okayama City, Japan, in October 2014.

Youth resilience strategies of Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities

Subscribers to PASCAL may be interested in this message received from the Rockefeller Foundation on Youth Resilience Strategies. Last week we invited readers to tell us what their cities are doing to put young people at the center of their resilience-building efforts. We received some great submissions from all over the world — take a look.

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