For the second year of the project, the audit has been adapted for use with staff in other contexts, specifically schools, universities and SMEs[3].  Like the first year’s audit, the second is in two parts: the first part is designed to engage staff in thinking about the concept of a Learning City and for the researchers to gain some insight into their understanding of it; the second is to ask staff what training they think they need as an individual. Data from the audit informs the structure, method and content of training days to meet staff learning needs, as identified by them.

Learning materials for the training days are designed using, as well as the learners’ responses, materials developed from another European Commission project, Lilliput (Lifelong Learning Leadership for Inspiring People Undergoing Transformation) with downloadable modules on many aspects of Learning City principle and practice. Staff in the schools, universities and SMEs in the localities and regions of the six partners are already responding positively to the audit and the planned workshops. A report of the second year’s findings will appear on this website before the end of the year. Other activities have been related to dissemination of the project’s findings and soliciting comments and feedback. For example, in January 2007 the project team presented at the Lifelong Learning in Europe conference in Finland  at the University of Rovaniemi, Lapland.