The inaugural meeting of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities (APLC) which unites 300 learning cities across 48 countries in the Asia-Pacific will be held in SONGDO on the 30th.
It is a place to declare future-oriented development and create platforms that can maximize synergy among member cities through mutual cooperation and network expansion for sustainable learning urbanization of all cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
The inaugural general meeting held under the theme of‘United Asia-Pacific Learning Cities’will be held in both face-to-face and non-face-to-face formats at the IGC INCHEON GLOBAL CAMPUS CONCERT HALL in YEONSU-GU at 4 p.m. on the 30th.
In the meantime, the Asia-Pacific Learning Cities (APLC hereunder) has met the international standards of Asia-Pacific Learning Cities which is the largest learning region in the world seeking the establishment aiming to promote future-oriented development.
In particular, an advisory group composed of 19 founding member cities and 28 home and offshore experts led by the National Lifelong Learning City Council includes 183 learning cities nationwide joined for long-term development of the cities.
At the general meeting on the day, sufficient discussion will be done on executive city, the articles of association, missions and roles of the member cities, etc. The current issues confirmed will be considered in the network draft promoting lifetime learning.
In addition, the cities are expected to be subjects looking for network function to share comprehensive and practical plans as a place for information exchange among the cities across the Asia-Pacific and seeking creative solutions to global common tasks like COVID-19.
At the inaugural general meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Eun-hye Yoo, Director of the UNESCO Lifelong Learning Center David Acho Arena, etc. are supposed to deliver congratulatory speeches via video and the Indian Ambassador to Korea and Costa Rica Ambassador, etc. will join.
In addition, the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), German International Association for Adults, International Learning Cities Network, UNESCO International Lifelong Education Organization, Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Education, etc. support the inaugural general meeting.
The membership in the cities is comprised of the 300 cities across the 48 countries in Asia-Pacific region that want to introduce the idea of learning cities in policy to implement. 36 Korean cities and 17 cities, etc. across 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific, 53 cities in total have been joined.
APLC picked the following seven missions to carry out in its vision such as ▲ to create and expand civic learning opportunities, ▲ to strengthen political leadership, vision prediction, and governance, ▲ to share comprehensive and actionable plans through partner cooperation, ▲ to set up goals and strengthen strategies that reflect regional characteristics, ▲ to establishing and implement special strategies to solve the issues of the learning cities ▲ to share effective policy case project development ▲ to reinforce individual capacity and practicing positive impact on social, economic and cultural sustainable development.
If you visit the APLC website (http://aplc-one.org), you can watch example videos of the General Meetings and Learning Cities in five different languages (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian).
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