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Sustainable Futures Global Network - Spring Newsletter

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Greetings to everyone, friends, and family of the Sustainable Futures Global Network. We are delighted to share with you some news and updates from across the network. A network that is working through new freedoms and relief at the relaxing of the pandemic impacts, but also new challenges and urgencies as communities and ecologies continue to struggle with social and ecological sustainability.

Webinar series “Learning Cities’ COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice” - Summary June to December 2020

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PASCAL International Observatory, whose European base is at the University of Glasgow, has been engaged in a range of activities around the world. These include a major collaboration with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, a successful webinar series, Learning Cities COVID-19 recovery: from research to practice, co-led by PASCAL director, Mike Osborne in 2020, which for the convenience of subscribers we are now re-posting and highlighting as a complete entity here.

Hywel Francis and the South Wales Adult Education and Labour movement

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John Gaventa formerly from the Highlander School in Appalachia now with the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University and I recently attended the memorial for the late Hywel Francis, adult educator, activist, historian, politician at a Miner’s Welfare Hall in South Wales.  We were reminded of the strength and transformative impact of the work of Hywel, his wife Mair and his colleagues and the power of this movement.  We wanted to draw more international attention to the importance of this adult education movement.

UNESCO Newsletter - June 2022: Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII)

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From 15 to 17 June 2022, education experts from around the world will come together for the Seventh International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VII) in Marrakech, Kingdom of Morocco, to formulate and strengthen UNESCO Member States’ commitment to ensuring that all adults can benefit from learning opportunities.

Lifelong Learning for Inclusion and Sustainability Conference 6th-9th June 2022 - A report

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The UALL and SCUTREA collaborative conference took place in Glasgow, Scotland in June 7th - 9th, 2022. The three day event followed a successful pre-conference by the ESREA on Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms network.

The brief overview, featured below and attached, provides highlights from the UALL/ SCUTREA joint conference where practitioners, activists, policy makers and academics came together from around the globe, to share insights into the issues faced in lifelong learning, continuing education and adult education.

 

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