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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
â–Ą The Learning Situation of Educational Park
produced desired outcomes. What started
opportunities to the wider community
out as a competition for each municipality
and become centers for developing
to win their educational park, turned into
community relations and citizenship. An
a large social mobilization campaign
alliance with NGOs is formed to advance
around education in 109 different
the project, which can serve as a model
territories, where local mayors were
for cooperation between governments and
brought together with educators, youth
NGOs in other areas.
groups and representatives of the local
Although it is part of a long-term
population to jointly devise strategies
development plan, the educational park
to improve the quality of education in
project has been incorporated into a new
their respective municipality through the
policy framework and implemented in
parks. An independent panel of renowned
collaboration between the public, private
academics, educators and business people
and social / community sectors. The
selected the 80 winning municipalities.
private sector has financed some of the
These educational parks are designed
construction and educational contents.
not only to improve formal education,
Local authorities co-finance the project in
but also to offer alternative educational
cash and human resources. The majority