Community Content Cork City Learning - 5 th UNESCO UIL Global Conference of Learning Cities in Yonseu, Korea. The Lord Mayor Cllr. Colm Kelleher and Chief Executive
UNESCO Global 5th Forum on Transformative Education Cork Learning City coordinator Denis Barrett was invited to give a presentation for the UNESCO Global 5th Forum on Transformative Education , held online on Nov 30th. Cork was the only city invited and our Learning City experience was featured as part of a session on Learning Cities and Adult Education, co- presented with panel members from the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Hamburg. The event was organized by the UNESCO Division for Peace and Sustainable Development Education Sector based in Paris, and the Learning Cities session was attended by over 340 participants worldwide.
Ann Doherty made a joint
keynote presentation focusing on learning that emerged from the work we’ ve done over the past two years, co-hosting a cluster of cities for health and wellbeing and learnings from the experience from responding to the needs of citizens health and wellbeing during the Covid Pandemic. The community response forum was also presented by Chief executive Ann Doherty. One of the key takeaway points from the presentation was that learning, and wellbeing are interchangeable and that we need to understand in a much more fundamental way the contribution that being involved in learning in a positive way can have on people’s wellbeing. Cork had 2 inputs to Mayors Forum. Lord Mayor Cllr. Colm Kelleher and Cork City CE Ann Doherty of Cork City presented at the first plenary session. Cork & Osan co-presented on Cluster for ‘Health & Wellbeing ’ and work on the ‘Health & Wellbeing ’ Global Cluster to continue. CAN Cork Access Network Cork Learning City working with strategic partners in CAN Cork Access Network, progressed plans towards two CAN events for early 2022, including filming of high-level panel discussions alongside learners’ stories, as Part of an ongoing series of CAN events, designed to bring partners together as a network to tackle education disadvantage in Cork City and region. The event in January will feature an input from the Secretary General of the Department of Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science, Mr. Jim Breslin as our guest of honour followed by a planned Learning Workplace breakfast event in MTU.
Irish Network of Learning Cities. Cork Learning City presented at the ‘Global Learning
Festival’ organized by Wyndham and
Melton in Australia,
alongside the other Learning Cities on the Island of Ireland, Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, and Derry. ‘Conversations with Learners’ webinar on Wednesday 10 th of Nov featured learners’ voices from around the island promoting and inspiring through their inspirational learning journeys. Cork Learning City also attended a virtual All Ireland meeting of the Chairs of the Irish Network of Learning Cities on the 17 th of November congratulating Dublin and Belfast in following Cork who were recipients of a UNESCO Learning City award in 2015. UNESCO Science Camp on Learning Cities, Budapest On the 29th November, representatives of Cork Learning City both presented and facilitated a workshop for third level students at a UNESCO Science Camp on Learning Cities, Budapest ‘ In between global and local - learning cities and learning communities” Attendees explored learning journeys to discover the impacts and challenges of a Learning City, where citizens engage in lifelong learning, sustainability, social inclusion and active citizenship for the benefit of all. South Parish & Groningen Members of the South Parish Learning Neighborhood and representatives from Groningen Learning City in the Netherlands came together to discuss plans for a joint sustainability project. The aim is to create a joint piece to progress the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival 2022.
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