Topic
Achieving Hong Kong as a Sustainable Opportunity City What Needs to Happen?

Speaker
Mr. Peter Kearns
(Intellectual Director of the PASCAL Intellectual Exchanges (PIE) Program, PASCAL International Observatory)

About the talk
This seminar discusses some key international trends in learning city development from the perspective of the PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE) project of PASCAL. 
 
The conceptual development of PIE has led to the concept of Sustainable Opportunity Cities that foster holistic integrated development across broad sectors. These include environment, social, economic (Sustainable) and lifelong learning, community building, enterprise (Opportunities). The notion of Sustainable Opportunity Cities integrates Learning City, Healthy City and Green City aspirations. 

What needs to happen to build Hong Kong as a Sustainable Opportunity City?
The discussion will consider the present situation, barriers and opportunities, and strategies that could drive successful development.

About the speaker
Mr. Peter Kearns has had broad experience in international education in a range of contexts as teacher, Australian public servant, consultant, and associate of the PASCAL International Observatory. He is Intellectual Director of the PASCAL Intellectual Exchanges program involving online exchanges of ideas and experience between twelve cities around the world and has been responsible for conceptual work on the learning city context in that context.
His international experience has included holding senior positions in the former Australian Department of Education and Science with responsibility for international educations relations with other countries, and three years as a member of the Australia Delegation to OECD in Paris. He was a member of an Australian Government Mission that examined developments in industry training in seven countries around the world in 1990, and wrote the country reports of the Mission.
He developed planning for the PASCAL International Exchanges in 2010 and has served as the Intellectual Director of the program since its launch in January 2011. In this role he has been responsible for conceptual development of the learning city idea over the past year which has led to notions for holistic and integrated planning and development of social aspects of cities. These ideas are set out in a working paper titled EcCoWell: Living and Learning in Sustainable Opportunity Cities.

Enquiry & Registration
For registration or enquiries, please RSVP to Ms. Pinky Chan at 2948 8129 or by email pmcchan@ied.edu.hk.