Learning Cities Cork presents at North American Learning City Network Webinar Cork Learning City gave a presentation representing
the European and North American Network of Learning Cities at a Webinar for the United States Coalition of Lifelong Learning Organisations COLLO in January. The Webinar, entitled ‘Learning Cities in Action’ dealt with how Learning Cities have been supporting the resilience of citizens during Covid.
Learning Neighbourhoods and Community Mentoring Cork Learning Neighbourhoods hosted a session on a Community Mentoring initiative with UCC, MTU, and Cork Education and Training Board on January. Community Response Forum Digital Divide Response Task Group meetings A series of meetings are been held with Community Groups, Schools and Educational Support Groups to identify where there are strengths and gaps in the availability of Technology, and technical supports for children, young people, families and older people. Food Response Task Group The Community Response Food Distribution Task Group has been meeting weekly to co-ordinate responses and to support the emergency food needs of vulnerable people in the city. ESRI Research Another consultation session was held with the ESRI Researcher on the Cork City Inter-Agency approach to the Community Response to Covid-19 in Cork City in 2020. The series of focus group meetings and consultations held in Dec. and Jan. will feed into a research report for Govt. on learnings from responses to the pandemic. Learning City and the SDGs at UCC Cork Learning City gave a lecture in UCC on the links with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a University Wide Module on Sustainability hosted over 10 weeks.
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