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The new call for proposals within the European Commission's Lifelong Programme has been issued and can be found here. This will be of interest to many colleagues, and you will see that the programme now integrates elements that were once seperate from the LLP including the Tempus programme for capacity building of HE in states adjacent to the EU.

I was reminded of the Cape Town statement recently by Jin Yang of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg. It was developed at the conference on Lifelong Learning, Higher Education and Active Citizenship held from the 10 - 12 October 2000 in Cape Town, co-hosted by University of Western Cape, the UNESCO Institute for Education and the Adult Education Research Group of the Danish National University of Education. I attach it here for us to reflect on how in the past decade universities have progressed in relation to the criteria laid out in the statement.

This project may be of interest. Led by JISC and AURIL (Association of University Research and Industry Links) in the UK, Supporting & Embedding CPD for Business & Community Engagement is a collaboration between sector stakeholders.

On 19 March, Scotland's Futures Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland organised on behalf of the Scottish Parliament an international workshop exploring the proposition that Scotland will be regarded as a world-leading learning nation by 2025. It included contributions from PASCAL associates Ilpo Laitinen and Anders Olsson by video-conference, as well as John Tibbitt and Mike Osborne at the host's venue, the Parliament building in Edinburgh.