TB PAN‐NET has recently moved two steps forward with a ‘Train-the-Trainer' Postgraduate Course and a Symposium, both organised in cooperation with the 7^th Framework Programme funded TBPAN-NET.

As prime objective, the ‘Train-the-Trainer' sought to upgrade the knowledge of doctors working with patients suffering from multi-resistant tuberculosis with a resulting positive impact on patient care. The trainers will then communicate the knowledge thus acquired, using standardised educational materials, to other doctors working in the field in Eastern Europe and in the former republics of the Soviet Union.

By invitation only, the Postgraduate Course, held 18 September in Barcelona, assembled twenty-five participants from numerous European countries, both East and West.

The Symposium ‘Tuberculosis, drug resistance and migration' provided an audience of some 350 clinicians, clinical scientists, immunologists, microbiologists, specialist nurses and public health specialists involved in the research, care, surveillance and control of tuberculosis, with an update on tuberculosis epidemiology, the link between migration and tuberculosis and the consequences for tuberculosis control.

Held 19 September during the ERS Annual Congress, it was chaired by C. Lange (Borstel, Germany) and G. Sotgiu (Sassari, Italy) and included four presentations.