Choices for and Barriers to a Learning City. Developments of the Pécs Learning City-Region Forum
Choices for and Barriers to a Learning City. Developments of the Pécs Learning City-Region Forum

Summary/Abstract: The Faculty of Adult Education and HRD of the University of Pécs initiated three local learning platforms in the Fall of 2014 as part of the Pécs Learning City-Region Forum, based on the initiative of UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning on the Global Learning Cities Network, as an umbrella network to get new collaborations started amongst learning organisations. These platforms collect and share best practices around the following themes: Atypical/Non-formal Learning platform; School and Environment platform; Inclusion and Handicapped Situations platform.This paper and the related presentation will elaborate upon how the Atypical/Non-formal Learningplatform generates specific adult learning and training of educators in local/rural Hungary based on a global initiative of learning cities. Accordingly, it will examine the challenges and opportunities for the learning city model of Pécs, based on some concrete actions in museums, and other cultural organisations, in engaging more adults in learning and developing their own communities in atypical forms of co-operative learning within and across particular platform-based actions.

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