The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) has provided the University of Glasgow with a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grant to support cutting edge research that addresses the challenges faced by Official Development Assistance(ODA)/ Lower and Middle Income (LMIC) countries. It will do this by supporting challenge-led disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, strengthening capacity for research in the UK and in LMIC countries and responding to emergencies where there is an urgent research need.  

Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers relating to the Nordic Conference in Jönköping, the EAEEIE Conference on European projects in Grenoble, AVETRA 2017 in Melbourne (see Conferences) and the Summer Days/ VET&Culture conference in Tampere (see Networks); a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on 'The changing world of work', a Summer School on 'Creative Methods' (see Programmes) and a new issue of IJRVET (see Publications) .