The 15th PASCAL Conference, to be held in Korea on 30 August - 1 September 2018 has an updated title and sub-themes. The venue is the city of Suwon, part of metropolitan Seoul, Korea. The co-organiser is the GyeonggiDo Provincial Institute of Lifelong Learning (GILL).  The main theme of this first East Asia PASCAL Conference is "Learning Cities, Learning Societies: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice to Meet Local and Global Challenges”.  

Sub-themes, under discussion, include:

• Sustaining Learning City Networks;
• Building Collective Intelligence: Big data? Public Participation?;
• Lifelong Learning as the Key to Solve Community and Regional Problems; and
• Learning in later Life - the Search for Practical and Politically Attractive Answers.

Suggestions for the 2018 Conference programme should be addressed to Josef Konvitz at [email protected] and to Robbie Guevara at [email protected].