This international on-line format conference was organised by Global Learning City Pécs Programme so as to provide an insight some trends and issues of Learning City-Regions and to generate dialogue and discourse upon how learning cities may bridge creative, smart and inclusive focuses of knowledge transfer, skills and competence developments for the benefits of their own communities. Also, this event enabled participating speakers of plenary and workshops to reflect to some upcoming examples of practice with strong concerns towards participation in lifelong learning.

There were eight distinguished keynote speakers from the Timisoara/Romania, Glasgow/UK, Cork/Ireland, Aix-en-Provence/France, Groningen and Den Bosch/Netherlands, Espoo/Finland, Novi Sad/Serbia and Pécs/Hungary. Plenary session was followed by two workshops one to resonate challenges of inclusion, equity and access in the scope of vulnerable learners, but another one showing particular cases of smart and creative through art, architecture, design and digital. Each workshop had four presentations for discussion and enabled participants to formulate questions, answers and comments.

There were altogether 31 participants at this on-line conference to collect and share good ideas upon emerging matters of learning communities with quality concerns.

A collection of keynote presentations will be avaliable soon for registered participants at the weblink of the conference: Conference Call | Tanuló Város Fesztivál 2021 (ckh.hu)

Connecting Creative, Smart and Inclusive Dimensions of Urban Developments: Responses from Learning Cities and Regions, House of Civic Communities in Pécs - 23 September 2021.