As part of the drive towards developing a culture of lifelong learning, closely cooperate in identifying and removing barriers to adult learning, and in establishing demand-driven, high quality provision and facilities for the adult learning field, including e-Learning and distance learning opportunities.

cooperate to eliminate any barriers to adult learning and to set up services, such as e-Learning and distance learning facilities.

36. Stresses that improving the delivery of adult learning, the provision of information and making it easier to combine work with family life are essential to raise participation and are stimulating if they are combined with incentives; points out that measures to promote effective delivery include the availability of learning sites, facilitating learning at the workplace by adjusting working hours, providing childcare facilities locally, distance learning services for the disabled or vulnerable in remote areas, information and guidance on lifelong learning measures and on job opportunities, tailored programmes and availability of flex ...[+++]ible teaching arrangements; stresses that such measures must also be generally recognised and should contribute to professional advancement;

13. Emphasises the need for improved use of new technologies and observes, in this respect, that the development of Internet access and of digital-inclusion programmes designed to prevent a digital divide should be promoted and that new sources of knowledge and ways of learning, such as distance learning programmes and the provision of learning places,, should be encouraged and access made possible for all;

It is also suggested that the presence of universities in the media be increased as well as the promotion of distance-learning universities – they have asked us for this – and at the same time that a 'centre for universities' be created, as a centre for the universities to meet so that their relations are not maintained via the Internet and at a cool distance, but that there may be a place in Europe for debate on universities.

Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the e-Learning initiative concentrates on priority objectives: providing all schools with the necessary technological infrastructure and training teachers (who, more than anyone, are responsible for education), through bench-marking measures and the exchange of best practice, so that they acquire knowledge and skills in the use of the new technologies for educational purposes, in both content and software, which should be flexible, multicultural and should take account of the specific characteristics of pupils and other diverse factors, in order to improve child and adult pupils" capacity to learn, by developing distance learning ...[+++] and differentiated and individualised teaching methods;