Josef Konvitz, Chair, PASCAL International Observatory, wrote a paper on climate change, or rather how to cope with it, as a challenge to democracy, after driving across France and Belgium on July 25 2019, the hottest day of that year (42 degrees).

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This is an invitation to the above seminar to coincide with the visit of Professor Mike Osborne, Chair of Adult and Lifelong Education, the University of Glasgow, to Melbourne.  You can register now to book a place.

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The H2020 project, SoPHIA (Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment), got off to a great start in Rome when Professor Michela Marchiori and the Roma Tre University played host to the first meeting on 30th-31st January 2020.

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In many countries, it is held (and opinion-polled) that older adults are conservative, while the young out on the streets to chant and fight for radical change. This PIMA Bulletin bears witness to the fact that this is not necessarily accurate. Not all older PIMA contributors – notably regular columnists as represented in this issue No 28 – are ‘conservative’ (see below Findsen and Houston on words that matter). They tend to value history for what it teaches. They abhor the wish to erase the past with its lessons, whether uplifting or dire. They try to own and learn from experience, and to change policy and behaviour. Hence our exploration in 2019 of anniversaries and where ahead they point.

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From 2018–20, the Jean Monnet Sustainable Development Goals Network Seminar Series will address each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each seminar focuses on an individual Goal, offering an opportunity to explore the intent of the Goal, its targets, and some of the initiatives being undertaken to deliver on them. Each seminar will be accompanied by a Policy Brief.

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 Welcome to the newsletter of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) – the UIL Bulletin. In this first issue of 2020 you will learn more about the celebrations of the International Day of Education in UNESCO learning cities around the world, our lifelong learning policy work in countries such as Rwanda and Cambodia, a series of capacity-building workshop on family literacy, new UIL publications and many further initiatives.

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Derry City and Strabane Learning City is running an exciting new festival in May 2020 which will celebrate all types of learning across the city and region.  The festival aims to make learning accessible to all citizens and this is an opportunity to showcase all the amazing learning activities/events happening across the city and region. 

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P2PU is looking for somebody to join us (from anywhere in the world) as the Production Lead! We are looking for a candidate who can bring communications, design, and product management skills to our small team as we support more and more non-formal adult education communities around the world.

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