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Cedefop newsletter No 100 - May 2020 - Cedefop's coronavirus-related work presented at the European Parliament

Cedefop Executive Director Jürgen Siebel was invited to present the Agency’s activities in the context of the coronavirus crisis to the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on 26 May.

PIMA Bulletin No. 30 - May 2020

PIMA was established five years ago with the ambition of encouraging its members, and others who share concerns about how ALE and LLL can make the world a better place, to think ‘outside-the-box’ (OTB). The Bulletin is a vehicle for doing this.

THE: Pandemic 'will drive universities into lifelong education'

The coronavirus will push universities around the world to embrace lifelong education in a dramatic "market shift" as they seek a way out of an "existential crisis", according to two leading experts on longevity.

Learning From Seoul to Control COVID-19: Transparency, Accountability, Solidarity

Greetings from CityNet Secretariat. It has been over two months since the WHO declared COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Accordingly, many of our member cities have initiated total lockdown and taken a forceful pause on overall economic activities. It led many of those cities under lockdown to struggle with keeping a balance between following social distancing and keeping the nationwide economy afloat.

Learning Cities COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice | A Learning Cities Webinar Series

The aims of this webinar series are first to highlight important and challenging aspects of learning city development, drawing on recent research and development work in PASCAL and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and second to demonstrate the practical application of successful approaches in learning cities to address the issues described by offering a conceptual dialogue. In so doing, the intention will be to build the capacity in learning cities to take forward their own responses and approaches to the challenges they face.

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