Following a request made during the recent UIL/PASCAL webinar on Learning Cities and Education for Sustainable Development, please find below the latest edition of the UNESCO ESD newsletter, which includes the relevant information on the regional launch of the ESD for 2030 Roadmap, as well as the monitoring process.

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The webinar will explore the following questions:

1. What role civil society has been playing during the Covid 19 pandemic?
2. What opportunities and challenges civil society experienced to play these roles?
3. How has the state enabled civil society to effectively respond to pandemic challenges?
4. What should be done to strengthen relations between state and civil society for increasing community resilience, reducing inequalities, and accelerating economic recovery?

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The European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University and the European Studies Association Australia and New Zealand (ESAANZ) invite you to this online event on perspectives and responses from the EU and Russia on Turkey's ambitions.

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UN-Habitat has been actively helping governments respond to and recover from COVID-19. Keynote speaker Maimunah Mohd Sharif and panellist Dr Eda share how UN-Habitat works with cities to address the pandemic, providing insights into city-level dynamics and highlighting the importance of collaboration for more resilient cities.

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This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

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The Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education are collaborating in supporting an international webinar series in support of the UNESCO consultations on the creation of a Recommendation on Open Science, an international normative document to be adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in November of 2021.

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We are living in a time where the word ‘crisis’ is becoming ever more commonplace in the discourse of both public policy and decision making in public and private sector organisations. Equally, and for a number of years, the role and influence of experts and the evidence they bring to the decision-making process have been challenged multiple times.

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In this issue we feature 11 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

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