‘The PENR3L/PASCAL conference at Limerick from May 28 to 30th will be a great opportunity for people from universities and local and regional authorities to meet together in a perfect setting to create synergies that will improve learning city and learning region practice.’ The conference website is   www.ul.ie/dllo/conference the opening day will be devoted  completely to the PENR3L results. The programme for that is shown below

PENR3L Day  28 May 2008 – Programme

09.00 Welcome and Objectives.                                                                                           Dermot Coughlan

09.15 The PENR3L workshops re-visited                                                                 Norman Longworth

09.35  Exercise 1: Dragons Den: Two groups of 20 –  Two Learning region Case Studies with expert panels to question speakers

            Case Study 1- Peter Finnegan, West Europe, Dublin

                                    Expert group:  Ettore Ruggiero

                                                           Jutta Thinesse-Demel

                                                           David McNulty

                                                           Chris Shepherd

10.05   Case Study 2 - Palmira Juvevicienne, East Europe, Kaunas

                                     Expert Group: Romy Warren

                                                           Christos Doukas

                                                           Ferenc Kekes

                                                           Indra Odina

In this exercise 2 fifteen minute case study presentations will be made. The expert groups will then probe the presenters for details for success factors and weaknesses. The audience will join in at the end.

10.45  Coffee

11.15 Exercise 2: Small groups of 5 – Building on local strengths

What my region needs to do to create a learning region. What are the ten main strengths? What are the five main barriers? How do we build on the former and overcome the latter?  Outcome: Lists to be discussed over lunch

Group Leaders: John Storan, Ingunn Elvekrok, Jan Geens, Giuseppe Ronsisvalle, Marti Paralleda, Sue Dunn, Ana Correia, Nestor Duch

In this exercise small groups of 5 people exchange information about the opportunities and barriers that exist to the creation of a learning region in their own country. Each person should develop a list of 5 key actions to be taken and identify how these may be progressed. 

12.15 lunch  - coloured stickers will be issued to ensure that each person sits next to someone not from the same group.

14.00 Exercise 3: Four groups of 10 – Environment (Leader: Kate Sankey), Economic (Leader: Marti Paralleda), Social (Leader: Paolo Federighi), Cultural (Leader: Erik Wallin). The PENR3L network has been established and running for 10 years. Each group produces a poster containing highlights from the PASCAL Europe newsletter of 2018 within their respective categories. 3 to 4 stories each from various corners of Europe.

14.45 Feedback from Exercise 3 – Each group presents their findings (10 minutes each)

15.25 Coffee

15.55 How? 8 groups of 5 followed by a plenary session – each group formulates answers to the questions

What sort of structure does the PASCAL European network need to have? How should it be funded?

In which areas can the network be useful for its customers?             What does it need to do to grow into a useful facility for the active development of learning regions in Europe?

Group Leaders: Jarl Bengtsson, Jari Stenvall, Wolfgang Juette, Peter Krug, David McNulty, Barry Hake, John Tibbitt, Paul Hoop

16.25 Plenary Discussion led by Mike Osborne on the answers to these questions

17.00 Close

Itinerant rapporteurs for the day: Veronique Lobit, Kate Miller, Mireille Pouget, Roberta Piazza, Armando Palomar, Balazs Nemeth