On June 12, the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Republic of Korea and the Korean National Institute for Lifelong Learning (NILE) designated 11 cities to be Lifelong Learning Cities , bringing the number of Lifelong Learning Cities in the...
Since the first International Conference on Learning Cities, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), as the coordinating body of the Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC), has been preparing for the...
Many cities have started to take concrete actions to implement outcomes of the International Conference on Learning Cities hosted in Beijing , China in...
Swansea University hosted a Symposium on Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions on Wednesday 21 May 2014, as part of the Wales Festival of Entrepreneurship. Around 45 participants from the Swansea Learning City initiative and others engaged in developing entrepreneurship discussed how to make...
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the organ responsible for coordinating much of the UN’s economic, social and environmental work, held its first ever ‘integration segment’ at UN Headquarters in New York from May 27 to 29. This high-level event focused on the role of urban...
A short video about the experience of Shanghai as a learning city has now been published on the multimedia page of the GNLC website. Entitled “Learning, A Musical Note for A Vibrant City”, this video presents the profound changes Shanghai has undertaken to promote lifelong learning and become a...
The National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) of the Republic of Korea published the first issue of Lifelong Learning in Korea to report on the progress and the current situation of the Lifelong Learning City (LLC) project, which has been carried out since 2001.
In 1999,...
PASCAL International Observatory published a new policy briefing entitled “Learning Cities: the Role of the ‘Region–intensive’ University”.
Earlier Policy Briefings from PASCAL International Observatory have highlighted the importance of learning for the future of cities and of city...
The UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lecture Series on its website. The series is offered as a free resource by UN-Habitat, aimed at universities, urban practitioners, and policy makers, as well as general public who is interested in cities and sustainable urbanization.
The series...
During the International Conference of Learning Cities, held in October 2013 in Beijing, the participants adopted the Beijing Declaration on Building Learning Cities and committed themselves to advancing the development of learning cities. Turning this commitment into action, city authorities in...
