ICTP has established a Training and Research in European Laboratories (TREL) Programme. Daniele Treleani, professor of physics at Trieste University and long-time ICTP consultant, will be responsible for the programme, which has been placed under the administrative umbrella of ICTP's Office of External Activities. The roots of this initiative reside in talks with Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of IAEA, who visited ICTP in September 1999, and Philippe Busquin, European Commissioner for Research and Technological Development, who visited in March 2001. Meanwhile, a delegation of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, led by its president, B. Chadraa, visited ICTP on 9 April. A memorandum of understanding, signed during the visit, calls on ICTP and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences to promote additional collaboration in the training of young Mongolian scientists in physics, mathematics and related areas. In support of this goal, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences has agreed to create a travel fund to assist the participation of young Mongolian scientists in ICTP programmes.