Plenary Session: Implementing the Key Features for sustainable learning cities

Building a sustainable learning city entails an operational and pragmatic approach to the implementation of the discourse of lifelong learning for all. Monitoring the progress of building a learning city is necessary to transform political and theoretical discourses into concrete strategies and approaches and to evaluate the benefits of the strategies put in place. Budding learning cities will need a set of indicators to monitor their progress. Such as set of indicators is provided, for example, in the Key Features of Learning Cities adopted in Beijing; they offer a normative instrument for measuring progress with a focus on fundamental conditions, major building blocks and wider benefits of learning cities.

By focusing on the major strategies for monitoring learning cities’ progress, and through exchanges of successful practices, the discussion on this Sub-theme will provide mayors, city education executives and experts with a set of concrete strategies and approaches which could be adopted by city governments and other stakeholders to make efforts to measure progress and evaluate progress in learning cities.

Please find the Key Features here.

Get to know the speakers and moderators here.

Provisional Agenda