Plenary Session:Developing sustainable learning cities around the world

It is at municipal level that the greatest capacity exists for innovation and implementation of policies which respond to social, economic and political changes. This is why the potential of cities and urban regions to play a greater role in promoting social inclusion, economic growth, public safety and environmental protection is especially high. Many cities have benefited from participating in international policy dialogue, action research, capacity building and peer learning, and use learning city approaches to offer lifelong learning opportunities to their citizens. Others have applied learning city approaches to tackle specific challenges and put the outcome documents of the 1st Conference into action.

Deepening the analysis along these lines, this sub-theme will make a sound case for progress in developing sustainable learning cities, incentivizing mayors, city education executives and experts to embrace the learning city concept to enhance integrated social, economic and environmental sustainability in their cities and to create a better future – for themselves, for their citizens, and for the planet.

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Provisional Agenda