Recommendations, Recommendations, Recommendations – and their implementation.

Session outline: Within the last 5 years there has been a great deal of activity in the development of learning cities and regions. A plethora of recommendations on how to establish a learning city have been made by expert committees and projects to national, regional and local governments. There are many of them. Some cities and regions have even implemented some of them. This session brings together some of these recommendations and the activities they propagate, and examines what cities and regions may need to do in order to turn them into reality. It also acts as a summary of the issues that have been raised in the book ‘Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities’ and adds other parameters taken from reports to the European union, the TELS project, Victoria, OECD and other sources. Finally it encourages learners to produce materials and knowledge that can be useful within their own cities and regions.