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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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News from the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

The OECD staff devoted to regional, urban and local development present a series of papers and indexes concerning local financing, SMEs, culture, entrepreneurship and regional development, classic PASCAL themes. Proves to show what teamwork can achieve using electronic communications only.

Invitation to contribute to the Special Issue ‘Cultural, Creative and Sustainable Cities’ of Sustainability Journal (IF 2.592)

PASCAL subscribers may be interested in this call for papers for a Special Issue, entitled ‘Cultural, Creative and Sustainable Cities’ in the Sustainability Journal with a deadline of 11 December for submission of abstract. Further details follow below. 

Opportunity at Glasgow: Lecturer in Community Development - Job Ref: 045467

The University of Glasgow has advertised the following position, and we hope that it may be of interest to many within your networks. The post in the field of community development coheres closely with a number of foci of CR&DALL and invites applications from any part of the world:

PASCAL EcCoWell Community Recovery Program - Final Report

In this posting, we report on the PASCAL EcCoWell Community Recovery Program, which was conducted from March to October 2020 with attached an extensive edited report from Peter Kearns and Denise-Reghenzani-Kearns. The programme was developed to test whether EcCoWell ideas on integration and partnership would have value in supporting community recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Five learning cities, two learning neighbourhoods, and two universities participated in the program. Short profiles of participants are given in Appendix 1.

Global Learning Festival - Reflections Workshop Minutes and Attachments

Following on from the inaugural Global Learning Festival (GLF) offered from 1-4 September 2020, in late October 2020, core learning city participants in the GLF Working Group met for a reflections session, led by Dr Robbie Guevera, PASCAL Observatory Board member and Associate Professor,  International Development Program at RMIT.

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