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"Celebrating Learning" is the official theme and Newsletter title of the Brimbank City Council's learning city activities, emanating from their Community Learning Strategy.  Working across all ages, with community-oriented entities and through all learning opportunities, the approaches emerged from the will of the Council in difficult times to engage and elevate aspirations.  Community consultations that outlined an "Action Plan" as a learning community to developing an "Atlas" series that examines demographics, education forecasts, wellbein

Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers or proposals relating to: the International Congress on Vocational and Professional Education and Training (VPET) in Winterthur/Switzerland and UALL 2018 on "Opportunities for lifelong learning in a changing world" in Cambridge UK (see Conferences), the VET Research Award of the European Commission 2017 and the ESREA seminar on pioneers in European adult education in Paris (see Networks and Organisations), the two Winter Schools "Comparative studies in adult education and lifelong learning" in Würzburg/Germany and "International Perspectives on Education Policy (IPEP)" in Verona/Italy (see Programmes) and the CEDEFOP call for tender on the potential of work-based learning (see Projects).