Many cities and regions in Europe have developed strategies to foster a learning culture vis à vis economic, social and environmental change. The goal is the development of “learning cities” and “learning regions”, concepts that cities and regions can adapt to new knowledge and to new situations.
Investing in the Future – Building Learning Cities and Regions in Europe was the theme of a conference organised by EUROlocal at Murten, Switzerland from 27 to 29 October. It brought together some 50 academics and practitioners from 15 Member States in Europe. Discussions covered all aspects of learning cities and regions. Mr Jin Yang, UIL Senior Programme Specialist, gave a plenary presentation on building learning cities as a pragmatic approach to promoting lifelong learning in the international community.
Funded by the European Commission, the purpose of the EUROlocal project is to gather together all knowledge, tools, learning materials, strategies, cases studies of good practice, charters and publications on Learning Cities and Regions and to place them into a storehouse that can be accessed by all interested in this topic.
