European InfoNet Adult Education is a network providing journalistic information about current developments in adult education from European countries and the EU level.

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The Council of Europe’s Language Policy Unit has just launched of thenew website dedicated to the linguistic integration of adult migrants (LIAM):www.coe.int/lang-migrants. The aim of the website is to help member states develop and implement policy in this area. It draws on the outcomes of the LIAM project, which complements Council of Europe normative instruments and recommendations.

For the Ministry for Health in Malta involving the target group is an important part of preventing non-communicable and communicable diseases and ensuring healthy lifestyles. Dr Charmaine Gauci, Director at the Ministry for Health, explains the methods in this interview.

Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at is an Austrian open access journal for issues in adult education with a special focus on lifelong learning. Past issues have addressed education offers, demand and needs, professionalization, and educational policy in learning. The journal is published online on a four-monthly basis, and may be downloaded as a PDF. In addition, print versions are available at cost price. The journal is published under a Creative Commons license and may be shared and re-distributed upon indication of source.

The online magazine "Lifelong Learning in Europe" (LLinE) and the information network on adult education in Europe "European InfoNet Adult Education" have agreed to cooperate closely with each other and will publish an English European online magazine together in the future. The network members made the decision to collaborate during the InfoNet network annual meeting in Tallinn (Estonia).

Rumours tell that the negotiations over European Union´s new Programme for Education, Training, Youth and Sport have been difficult. The final decision will be done latest in summer.

Dr Anton Markmiller (61) began as the new director of the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (dvv international) in April 2013. He succeeds Dr Roland Schwartz.

The voice of adult educators should be more audible in the public debate of curbing youth unemployment. That is background for the first issue of the web-magazine LLinE produced in cooperation with InfoNet. The main article of the magazine is a unique overview of youth unemployment in 18 European countries.

Literacy and basic education of adults is one of the prevailing problems for billions of adults worldwide. As the UN Decade of Literacy winds down, it is a good time for adult educators worldwide to thoroughly analyse its results, especially the failures and shortcomings – in concept, approach and methods.