One should applaud the University of Malta UNESCO Chair on Global Adult Education and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) that they took up the initiative to bring CONVERGENCE - AN INTERNATIONAL ADULT EDUCATION JOURNAL back to life in 2022. It had been published ever since the late 1960s, and stopped for about a decade.

CR&DALL was very pleased to be able to support the 7th GLOBAL FORUM FOR ATLVs on Health Education for All, held in Alexandria and online from March 7-9, 2023. It was represented by Yulia Nesterova, whose presentation was entitled The importance of learning cities and whole-community approach to supporting chronically ill people and their families.

We are very pleased to announce that Nematollah Azizi from the University of Kurdistan, Iran, has been appointed as Leverhulme Visiting Professor within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, hosted within CR&DALL. We are most grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding this position from January 2023 for 12 months, and very much look forward to Nematollah's stay with us. He was previously a collaborator in our British Academy, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)- funded project, Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA).

We recommend the latest issue of the DVV International Newsletter, the contents of which are found through the links found below. A number of the pieces in the newsletter relate to follow-up from the recent UNESCO CONFINTEA VII held in Morocco in June 2022.  The Marrakech Framework for Action, Harnessing the transformational power of Adult Learning and Education, that emanated from the conference is attached for convenience.