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EcCoWell 2 - Briefing Paper 5 - Harnessing environment policy & practice for a sustainable future - Bernadette Connolly

This Briefing Paper, the fifth in the EcCoWell 2 Series is written by Bernadette Connolly from the Cork Environmental Forum. It concerns Environment Policy & Practice in Cork, covering the following main issues:

Dr. Josephine Malonza reports on the Webinar Series 'Human Mobility across the Urban-Rural Continuum in the time of COVID-19', Session 2 on 21st July 2020

Josephine summarized the speakers’ presentations with an analogy of ‘opening the box’ in three ways, and gave thought-provoking and inspiring ways to frame and to address the mobility challenges during this global pandemic:

Cedefop newsletter No 102 - July/August 2020 - Planning the next steps for vocational education and training in Europe

Hosted under the Croatian and the German Presidencies of the EU in cooperation with the European Commission, the joint online Cedefop-ETF conference, on 30 June and 1 July, will review the achievements in European cooperation in vocational education and training (VET) between 2015 and 20. It will also debate Cedefop’s and ETF’s overall evidence, data and intelligence on the key challenges for VET going forward.

Local challenges, global imperatives: Cities at the forefront to achieve Education 2030 – IIEP/UNESCO

PASCAL subscribers may be interested in current research on educational planning at the urban level being undertaken at International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)/UNESCO. The urgent need to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) has led to their promotion at the global level. Yet, it is at the local level that the most promising solutions are emerging.

Integrating Arts, Spirituality and Transformative Learning towards Wellbeing

This paper captures opportunities and challenges of how an expanded understanding of EcCoWell has practical implications for community recovery and renewal and engaging a “dream deferred”.

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