A delegation, led by Northern Illinois University President Douglas Baker, to represent the Northern Illinois Regional P-20 Network joined President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden at a White House College Opportunity Summit on December 4, 2014.

Subscribers may be interested in the note from Eurydice just received. The report - Tackling Early Leaving from Education and Training in Europe - is featured below.

The 12th PASCAL International Observatory conference will  be hosted at the University of South Africa from the 28th to the 30th of September 2015 with the theme Community Engagement in the 21st Century.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Ilpo Laitinen, City of Helsinki, Professor Balázs Németh, University of Pecs and Professor Roberta Piazza, University of Catania, have been appointed as Associate Directors of PASCAL. They will respectively have responsibility for developing the work of PASCAL in the Nordic countries, Eastern and Central Europe, and in Southern Europe.

We are pleased to feature here for PASCAL subscribers the third issue of our quarterly web magazine 'Lifelong Learning in Korea' published by the Office of Global Lifelong Education Relations at NILE and the objective is to share Korean lifelong education projects and cases with policy makers, researchers, experts and practicers from all over the world.

The title of the third issue of 2014 is "Lifelong Learning for All : Focusing on the Cases of 'Lifelong Learning Centers for Happiness'".