PACE - A European Programme of Advanced Continuing Education
Abstract PACE — a European Programme of Advanced Continuing Education — originated in a proposal adopted by a Joint Europe/USA Forum held in Palo Alto, California and White Plains, N.Y. 16 to 24 September 1986. The Forum was attended by some 80 participants from the world of industry, higher education, government and several international and European organisations. It was organised by the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) in close cooperation with the Commission of the European Communities and sponsored by five major industrial corporations — British Telecom, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Philips and Thomson. Subsequently, the same companies, in association with representatives of European higher education institutions have decided to carry the proposal forward and created for this purpose a mechanism described below.