There are many different kinds of learning spaces. Among them, public spaces can offer new a new opportunity to combine learning with active citizenship. The challenge of involving urban planners, associations and the local population in new approaches to shared urban spaces has been put forward by the CitiZens project.

The model of municipal adult education centres has proved its worth all over Europe. Now an educational establishment along these lines has been opened in Morocco for the first time with German assistance.

Katarina Popovic, professor of adult education at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and member of InfoNet, was recently in Afghanistan, providing expert services for a German project on educational reforms.

The Fund would support Member State schemes providing food to the most deprived people and clothing and other essential goods to homeless people and materially-deprived children. The proposal now goes to the European Parliament and the European Union's Council of Ministers for approval.

EUCIS-LLL organises for the second time a Lifelong Learning Week. Its aim is to raise awareness on the social dimension of education and training,as the important factor to reach the headline targets of Europe 2020 in this field. 

EAEA has been lobbying the members of European Parliament´s Culture and Education Committee (CULT) to increase the budget of adult learning in the framework of Erasmus for All, the new programme for education, youth and sport. Many members are now proposing increase to the financial plan proposed by the Commission.

UNESCO launched a public consultation on the review of the 1976 Recommendation regarding Development of Adult Education. This joint reflexion came up with the idea of the pressing need to do more than just update and reword the document approved at the Nairobi General Conference. The need for a new Convention was recorded on the agenda through this process involving extensive participation.

Commissions in November 2011. These reports will be used to monitor the implementation of the Belém Framework for Action. As shown in the reports, a large number of Member States used the reporting process as an opportunity to consult a wide range of national actors and stakeholders involved in the field of adult education, both in government and other sectors

At a conference attended by 120 participants, and organised by the Institute of Education, University of Zurich, on "The role of the dual system and NQFs in international development cooperation", international and regional agencies and development partners reflected on their approaches to national qualifications frameworks and skills development.

MEPs think the Lifelong Learning Programme is a key programme for growth and should not be subject to further cuts.
The Parliamentary Committee on Budgets Committee voted Thursday 11 October 2012 on the EU's 2013 budget. To enable the Union to pay incoming bills, the European Commission's budget proposal for payments must be reinstated, to restore funds cut by the Council.