Career development and mobility of highly skilled people have been at the centre of several fora and actions in Europe. Research and policy representatives have investigated which are the motivating and inhibiting factors for international mobility, which are the conditions and problems that researchers face in their work and career development, and how to foster creativity, knowledge creation and innovation. This paper is based on a survey carried out within the E*CARE project of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme in eight European countries. It highlights some findings linked to the environment for the careers and mobility of researchers in Europe, and the awareness of EU initiatives for building the European Research Area. Special emphasis is given to the attractiveness of researchers' careers, the remaining problems of researchers' mobility and its impact on further career development.

The authors presented a series of business patterns for Knowledge Audit at EuroPLoP workshops trying to establish a pattern language in the field aimed at Knowledge Management practitioners, for managers of Small and Medium Enterprises, entrepreneurs, students, experts and consultants. As a follow-up of the previous work, in this paper are presented three patterns corresponding to the main tools used in the Knowledge Audit methodology -Knowledge Flows Analysis, Critical Knowledge Function Analysis and Knowledge Diagnostics. The patterns can be applied in knowledge-intensive organizations as they propose guidelines for solving specific problems of linking knowledge and business processes, better usage and provision of knowledge when and where it is needed and taking advantage of existing knowledge flows.

In the information era knowledge is in the centre of organisational competitiveness and growth. It is difficult to manage knowledge as it resides in human minds. Its success requires a synergy of organisational, technological and humanfocused initiatives and tools integrated in a Knowledge Management System. This paper provides guidance in a form of patterns on designing the core elements of such system -infrastructure, info-structure and info-culture. It provides a framework for a set of patterns to be further developed, and based on already presented patterns at the European Conference for Patterns Language of Programming (EuroPLoP) in the areas of Knowledge Audit and Knowledge Management Strategy.