An example – the PALLACE project

In its two-year time span, PALLACE linked stakeholders - schools, adult education colleges, cultural services departments, elected representatives and community builders - in

1. the Adelaide and Brisbane regions of Australia
2. the Auckland region of New Zealand,
3. the city of Beijing in China,
4. Edmonton in Canada,
5. Espoo in Finland,
6. Edinburgh in Scotland
7. Sannois in France

The PALLACE objective was to use these links to help the partner cities grow into true international learning cities. Each partner managed a sub-project to involve Stakeholders in the city (schools, local authorities, universities, adult colleges etc) in productive links with each other that would help them understand the nature of a learning city and their own role in helping it to grow. It arose from work on learning cities, towns and regions carried out in Europe, notably the highly successful European Commission’s TELS (Towards a European Learning Society) survey of Lifelong Learning practice in 80 cities, and the rapidly increasing Learning Community activity in Australia, Canada, China and New Zealand.

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