This is the monthly e-Bulletin from FACE (the Forum for Access and Continuing Education), offered to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others with an interest in access, widening participation and lifelong learning. In this month's issue PASCAL Director and FACE Executive Member Michael Osborne provides an update on the highly impactful work he and others are doing on Learning Cities.

Strasbourg is often said to be at the heart of Europe. Torn between France and Germany for decades it was perhaps an obvious choice for the construction of the Palais de l’Europe and the European Parliament. Recently I had occasion to visit the Parliament building and to listen to an interchange between young adults from all over Europe and the Vice-President of the Parliament.