PIE Themes Overview

To further develop the unique perspective that PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE) represents for its contributors and participants, this THEMES section highlights a number of major issues which have evolved since the inception of the project.

Initially, PIE was established with a core set of Stimulus Papers from key contributors representing cities and regions from around the world. This has provided a rich pool of information, experience and innovative ideas that all participating cities have benefitted from.  Through this public web space we hope that a wider audience has also found the dialogue an interesting and valuable resource.

For a comprehensive review of the development of the PASCAL International Exchanges project, please see Building Inclusive and Sustainable Learning Cities by Peter Kearns, Michael Osborne and Denise Reghenzani-Kearns.

We now invite extended contributions and discussions on the following PIE Themes:

To participate in the PIE project, contribute materials or simply to join in the discussions, please contact Peter Kearns.

 

 

Latest Posts

PASCAL Briefing Paper 10 - Developing holistic and integrated learning cities: Health and EcCoWell - now available in Korean

We are very pleased that Briefing Paper 10 by Peter Kearns is now available in Korean. The paper revisits PASCAL's EcCOWell model developing it into EcCoWell 2. This topic will for sure be one of the features of the next PASCAL conference in Suwon, Korea in from 30 August to 1 September 2018. Thanks to YunAh Park, a student on our Erasmus Mundus Masters in Adult Education for Social Change for translating this paper.

Rethinking EcCoWell: In the Context of Sustainable Development Goals

This paper reviews the experience of the EcCoWell concept which was developed by PASCAL in 2012 as an approach to holistic and integrated development of learning cities.

The conclusions and recommendations of the paper were approved by the PASCAL Board in November 2017 and are now serving as the basis for implementing EcCoWell 2 as a refinement of the EcCoWell concept relevant to progressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in towns and cities. 

Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change

The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), a major network of international human rights scholars, has issued around the world in a Draft Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change ("The Declaration") ahead of the Paris Climate Summit beginning on 30 November.

A second visit to Cork Lifelong Learning Festival

For the second year running I had the pleasure of attending the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival. Because of a previous appointment, I had missed the UNESCO Growing Learning in Cork event and had only the Thursday and the Friday to enjoy the proceedings, being picked up at the airport on a wet and miserable Wednesday night by Willie McAuliffe (Chair of the Festival Organising Committee) after a 14 hour journey.

Activate programme from University of Glasgow presented in Cape Town

As part of my involvement in the Kettering Foundation and Talloires Networks international collaborative research partnership into studying Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement, I along with my community partner Nghomes (Margaret Layden) was invited to participate in the Network's International Leaders conference “Live Engagement, Transform Lives” held in South Africa in December 2014.

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