In July 2009 the Universidade Lusı´ada de Famalica˜o organized the International Conference on Managing Services in the Knowledge Economy 2009 (MSKE 2009) (http://clegi.fam.ulusiada.pt/MSKE2009/). MSKE 2009 was a multidisciplinar forum, which gathered 60 participants, from 20 countries, specialized in different areas, such as knowledge management, intellectual capital, human resource development (HRD),
international economics and social policy. In the HRD field, several relevant studies were presented and five of them were selected to be included in the current issue of the Journal of European Industrial Training.