The Bradley Review in Australia recommended: 'That the Australian Government commission a study to examine the feasibility of a new national university for regional areas and, if the study indicates that a new national regional university is feasible, the Australian Government provide appropriate funding for its establishment and operation'. (Recommendation 17)

After a decade of developing lifelong learning initiatives and projects, the European Commission launched new actions in 2008 and 2009 focusing on the exploitation of available European lifelong learning resources.

The idea was to promote cooperation projects not developing new learning approaches, but developing sustainable platforms for exploitation and valorisation of existing resources, being produced within the lifelong learning actions or elsewhere.