ISSN 1022-6559 20 October 1997 every day, and other CORDIS databases. The contents of this bulletin are based on RTD-News, updated COMMISSIONER CRESSON HOSTS DISCUSSION WITH YOUNG EUROPEANS On 7 and 8 October 1997, Commissioner Edith Cresson, responsible for Research, Innovation, Education, Training and Youth, hosted a discussion with some 120 young Europeans, each of them invited as current or former participants in Community programmes. The successful initiative, the first of its kind, allowed the young participants, aged between 18 and 29, to put forward their views whether favourable or critical on the programmes in which they had participated. The programmes discussed fall into three groups: research and innovation, education and training, and youth programmes. Separate workshops were held, bringing together the participants in programmes in each of these three areas, before all the participants attended an open session with Mrs. Cresson. At this session, the results of each workshop were presented to the Commissioner, who then discussed these with the group.