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Learning Limerick’s participation in the 2016 PASCAL Conference with PHOTO GALLERY!

A team of 7 delegates represented the Learning Limerick group at the 2016 PASCAL Conference in Glasgow, 3-5 June, contributing both Paper and Showcase presentations. The Learning Limerick members taking part came from the PAUL Partnership (Local Development Company for Limerick City), Limerick City and County Council, Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB), and the Limerick Integration Working Group.

Building resilient cities key to tackling effects of climate change - Urban Adaptation Change report

Cities across Europe must step up their adaptation efforts if they are to handle the increasingly complex challenges caused by climate change such as more extreme flooding or prolonged heatwaves. A European Environment Agency (EEA) report published today stresses the benefits of investing in long-term preventive measures that cities should take to improve their resilience.

Global Advisor Spotlight: Josef W. Konvitz (UN Global Compact - Cities Programme)

Josef W. Konvitz’s recently published Cities and Crisis comes just in time for the lead up to Habitat III. A historian, former diplomat and authority on economic governance and urban development, Konvitz is also a UN Global Compact – Cities Programme Global Advisor. He was responsible for the coordination between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and UN Habitat in the preparation of the Istanbul 1996 Habitat II conference.

The PASCAL Glasgow Statement on Innovation in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

In blazingly wonderful weather, the very successful 13th PASCAL Conference in Glasgow was brought to a close by Dr Peter Kearns, who articulated the proceedings and the consensus that delegates had found.  The PASCAL Glasgow Statement on Innovation in Building Sustainable Learning Cities describes the steps that PASCAL will take over the next two years, the networks it will work through, and the people, institutions and initiatives PASCAL will be allied with.  These learning plans express an appetite for innovation which characterizes PASCAL’s practical contribution, and they are set in the moral context of global social cohesion which continues to inspire PASCAL’s members.

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13th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - Glasgow

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