{"id":20962,"date":"2015-11-11T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edcities.whads.com\/news\/gumi-hosted-the-7th-meeting-of-the-iaec-asia-pacific-network-2\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T11:09:58","slug":"gumi-hosted-the-7th-meeting-of-the-iaec-asia-pacific-network-2","status":"publish","type":"edc_news","link":"https:\/\/edcities.whads.com\/en\/news\/gumi-hosted-the-7th-meeting-of-the-iaec-asia-pacific-network-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumi hosted the 7th Meeting of the IAEC Asia-Pacific Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening of the Meeting had speeches by the Mayor of Gumi, Mr. Nam Yoo-Chin, the Deputy Mayor of the IAEC AP Network Chair City of Changwon, Mr. Park Jae-Hyun, the IAEC General Secretary, Ms. Marina Canals, and the Superintendent of the Bureau of Education of Gumi, Ms. Kim Jeong Sook.<\/p>

As soon as the ceremony ended, the Director of the Lifelong Learning Institute of North Gyeongsang, gave a presentation on the theme of the Meeting followed by a plenary speech on the role of new technologies in the education of children and youth in social risk by the representative of the UNESCO Bureau for Asia-Pacific, Mr. Ichiro Miyazawa.<\/p>

Furthermore, there was a presentation of good practices by representatives of the cities of Gumi, Changwon, Saha-gu and Suseong-gu. The day closed with a presentation of the activities of the IAEC Asia-Pacific Network and a presentation of the 14th<\/sup> IAEC Congress to be done in Rosario (Argentina) next June 2016.<\/p>

The second day of the Meeting began with a keynote speech on lifelong learning and communication and closed with a planning working session of the member cities of the network.<\/p>

To sum up, the 7th Meeting has been a new opportunity for the Asian member cities to meet and learn together.<\/p>