Introduction.- Eastern Promise: New Wave Learning Cities in Japan.- Learning Cities: National Concepts and Practices in Selected Asian and European Countries.- Learning Cities in South Korea: Two Decades of Experimentation and the Future of the State-Led Learning City.- Towards a theory of the African learning city.- Between transition and resilience, the challenges of a learning territory: the case of Puy-de-Dome.- Going Digital: The Hamburg Open Online University.- Becoming and Flourishing as Wyndham Learning City.- An African Approach: Bahir Dar Learning City.- Towards the Realization of the Learning City: a focus on Lucca, Italy.- The Role of the University of Pécs in Turning the Learning City Concept into Reality: Bridging University Lifelong Learning to Learning Cities through Innovation, Cooperation and Development.- Cork Learning City: an analysis of the key elements that have made it a success.- Learning Neighbourhoods: intergenerational learning, exchange and respectful community building.- Connecting People and Planet for a Sustainable Future: The EcCoWell 3 Approach to a Sustainable Future for Learning Cities.- Learning Cities and the Learning Society.- From Vision to Action: Lifelong Learning in Cities.
Séamus Ó Tuama is Director of ACE (Adult Continuing Education) at University College Cork, Ireland and Chair of the ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning (ASEM LLL Hub), an official network for university cooperation in Lifelong Learning Research across 51 countries in Asia and Europe. He was a member of the organising committee when Cork City hosted the third UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities in 2017. He continues to be actively engaged in Cork Learning City, being a member of both the Lifelong Learning Festival and Learning Neighbourhoods committees. He has presented, published and delivered workshops on learning cities across the globe. He is a member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame, an ambassador for eucen and a recipient of an AAACE President's Appreciation Award. He serves on various committees, boards and panels on adult education and lifelong learning internationally. He holds academic roles at the Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Science & Technology Meghalaya, India, as a visiting professor at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering & Technology, India; Daffodil University, Bangladesh and Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia.
Eric Agbessi is a university professor and director of the Institute of Technology at the University of Clermont Ferrand in France. He has been a researcher in the field of public space and its interaction with territories for the last 30 years. He is currently working on improving learning in the context of learning cities. He is a member of Research Network 6: Learning Cities and Learning Regions of ASEM Lifelong Learning Hub and is a former member of the Steering Committee of eucen. Tina Neylon was founding Coordinator of the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival, one the most significant dimensions of Cork Learning City and a key component in Cork being recognised by UNESCO as one of the first global learning cities in 2015. She served as its Coordinator from its inception in 2004 until 2017. She was a member of the organising committee when Cork City hosted the third UNESCO International Conference on Learning Cities in 2017. She also served on the drafting committees for declarations on Learning Cities at two of the UNESCO conferences, in Beijing (2013) and Cork (2017). She returned to education as a mature student at University College Cork and graduated with an MA. She has worked in Arts, Heritage and Media, including as curator of a stately home, books editor at a national newspaper, radio presenter, and parliamentary assistant. Her wide working experiences informs her approach to learning cities and lifelong learning.
