What plans does the Labor party have for creating jobs, and training and re-training people who are looking for work? This week's news round up includes coverage of last week's Skills Summit with its emphasis on lifelong learning, plus stories about positive ageing, digital inclusion and more.

Families are facing new challenges in our increasingly complex society. In order to meet the increasing complexity and importance of family science, social and cultural sciences in the German-speaking world discussed the establishment of an independent discipline of family sciences and the establishment of appropriate study programmess. A major step in this direction began in April 2013 as the first interdisciplinary Masters course of study of its kind in the German-speaking world was developed by the applied family sciences at HAW Hamburg.