Education and Lifelong Learning Watch (LLL Watch) is a monitoring tool that provides information on different aspects of education, policy trends in the field of education as well as challenges faced at the European and national level regarding lifelong learning. The general report is the result of the 13 different national monitoring reports and evaluates progress towards the achievement of the educational objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy and Education and Training 2020 strategic framework for Member States. In addition, the LLL Watch report presentsSOLIDAR Foundation’s general recommendations to develop learning societies for each of the chosen bench-marks.