Ultimately, target users who will benefit the most from the objectives of the JEM thematic network are students and life-long learners who need to acquire skills in mathematics, possibly by self-study. Today's technologies can help considerably in assisting teachers to train these skills in a large number of students with no additional effort.

During this last year, diagnostic entry tests for university freshmen are gaining increasing attention due to the opening of universities to international students with different backgrounds and preparation but also due to larger gaps in students coming from primary schools. Several JEM nodes have worked and are working to produce diagnosing and self-assessment exercises to test the mathematical backgrounds of incoming students at university. A pioneer JEM member in this respect is the AMSTEL Institute that continuously increases its collection of self-assessment materials and has raised awareness of this problem in other JEM partners. In some cases, like at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the diagnostic test will take place for the first time in September as a result of JEM cooperation. Since also other partners are interested in this activity, the network will devote a special session during the upcoming meeting to report on results and methodology. Where possible, the network might decide to publish a collection of multilingual entry tests that can be adapted to the local requirements while remaining generally usable in Europe.