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GWT Excellence Awards 2022

GWT Excellence Awards 2022

Generations Working Together have launched our Excellence Awards for 2022. Can you please share this information with your members and include it in your newsletters?

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Thursday, 18 November, 2021
For partners reference and action | ASEF Invitation to Pitching Event for Tech Solutions

For partners reference and action: ASEF Invitation

For partners reference and action | ASEF Invitation to Pitching Event for Tech Solutions: 23rd ASEF Summer University on Sustainable Urbanisation. Please find featured below and attached an important update related to the 23rd ASEF Summer University (ASEFSU23), a virtual Hackathon on “Liveable Cities for a Sustainable Future”, which focuses on three of the most populated countries in ASEM: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

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Thursday, 11 November, 2021
UNESCO learning cities commit to boosting learning for health

UNESCO learning cities commit to boosting learning for health and call on national governments to make lifelong learning a priority

With the adoption of the Yeonsu Declaration [featured below] at the fifth International Conference on Learning Cities (ICLC), UNESCO learning cities from around the world pledged to place lifelong learning for health and the development of resilience at the centre of their agenda.

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Sunday, 31 October, 2021
IIEP Policy Forum on open government in education

IIEP Policy Forum on open government in education

From 16-18 November 2021, you are invited to join a virtual Policy Forum on open government in education. By bringing new research to the forefront, the Policy Forum – in English, French, and Spanish – will help policy-makers and programme implementers improve education service delivery and reduce corruption in education.

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Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
Symposium Invitation | Focus on Agency: Track & Trace, Unlock & Unblock

Symposium Invitation | Focus on Agency: Track & Trace, Unlock & Unblock

This symposium is occasioned by three remarkable PhD dissertations in the field of learning and development. All three concern strategies of fostering agency of those less heard: of school children and teachers in a local school in Groningen, of youth and their educators in vocational education in Uganda, and of lifelong learning practitioners in NGOs in Uganda. All three apply Action Research methods aimed at freeing, ‘unlocking’, the agency of participants and their communities.

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Saturday, 23 October, 2021
Work-o-Witch New Article: The old fear of the end of new work itself

Work-o-Witch New Article: The old fear of the end of new work itself

A new article on W-o-W has just been published: The old fear of the end of new work itself  by Joerg Markowitsch. We all look forward to the end of the working day, but not the end of work itself. The fear of automation and the end of work is an old topos, as evidenced by industrial films from the 1950s...

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Thursday, 21 October, 2021
Pre-COP Webinar - Australia, ‘Good’ Global Governance and the Geopolitics of Climate Negotiation

Pre-COP Webinar - Australia, ‘Good’ Global Governance and the Geopolitics of Climate Negotiations - 27 October 2021

We are pleased to announce a further Pre-COP Webinar: Australia, ‘Good’ Global Governance and the Geopolitics of Climate Negotiations to be held on Wednesday 27 October at 0900 (BST), 1600 (Singapore) and 1900 (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

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Friday, 15 October, 2021
Presentation of systematic international literature review on professional learning communities

Presentation of systematic international literature review on professional learning communities in the global south - 21 October

On 21 October at 1330 local time in Brussels, Professor Ellen Boeren, CR&DALL core member together with University of Glasgow colleague Dr Thanh Dong Nguyen will be presenting at a webinar concerned with on professional learning communities (PLCs) where the results of their systematic international literature review on PLCs in the global south funded by VVOB will be presented together with practical stories.

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Friday, 15 October, 2021
Educational Peacebuilding | Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation

Educational Peacebuilding | Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation

This briefing summarizes emergent findings from public policy analysis and interviews with 50 citizens of Medellin from a variety of sectors in 2020, many of whom had directly participated in the societal transformation that began during the 1980s. We aim to show that cultural inclusion, democratic and civic culture are crucial aspects of Medellin's cultural transformation.

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Friday, 8 October, 2021
Pre-COP26 Webinar: Higher Education, Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability - October 11, 2021 1500

Pre-COP26 Webinar

We are pleased to announce a webinar on 11 October at 1500 (BST) in which the UNESCO Chair in Chair in Community-based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education, is co-operating with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) to present a Pre-COP26 Webinar: Higher Education, Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability.

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Wednesday, 6 October, 2021

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