The Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich hosted the first planning meeting for the R3L+ project funded by the European Commission from 9-11 December 2009. This project is concerned with developed a quality framework for learning region networks.  Pictured here from the right are:

- Erik Wallin, City Conversity AB (Sweden)
- Randolph Preisinger-Kleine, p&w praxis und wissenschaft projekt gmbh (Germany)
- Jutta Thinesse-Demel, Lernende Regionen Deutschland e.V.(Germany)
- Muir Houston, PASCAL, Glasgow University (UK)
- Thomas Eckert, Ludwig Maximillian University (Germany)
- Ieva Ceseviciute, Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)
- Balazs Nemeth, University of Pecs (Hungary)
- Brian  Dillon, Nexus Europe (IRL) Ltd. (Ireland)
- Antonas Bogdanas, City of Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Mike Osborne, PASCAL, Glasgow University (UK)"