Particularly worth noting in this edition are calls for papers or proposals relating to: the European Mentoring Research Conference in Chester, the Conference on Comparative Education in Varna (see Conferences), the Asia-Europe conference in Wuerzburg, the Action Learning Symposium in Liverpool, the EARLI SIG 14 in Geneva (see Networks and Organisations), the DARE conference on inclusive education in Tbilisi (see Projects), the Special Issues on Learning in SMIs (HRDI) and the Thematic Series on Assessing financial literacy (see Publications). And not to overlook: the HRD 'Scholar-Practitioner' Writing Award (see Publications).

In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital: