EcCoWell

The concept of Sustainable Opportunity Cities has evolved into a primary focus of the PASCAL International Exchanges initiative.

Posts under the PIE Theme of Sustainable Opportunity Cities address different approaches and issues with this area whilst this special section introducing EcCoWell features resources and materials specific to this major development area for PIE.

 

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. 

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.

Taipei Learning City

I am a coordinator of Taipei Learning City and I have written a number of articles about the Learning City during the past three years. The attachment in this email is a list of articles that can be found at the Taipei Learning City website.

EcCoWell Cork - 7th Heaven (Meeting)

The most recent EcCoWeLL session in Cork on Thurs 5th June went very well, with 74 attending, confined to those who had participated in previous EcCoWeLL events.

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