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The article deals with distance education and e-learning. The support for the development of distance education and e-learning is still a major priority for the European Commission. The development of distance education is also supported financially by the EU. Not only education programmes are supported financially, but also research projects dealing with this issue. The article maps out the current situation in distance education developments and opportunities of distance learning in adult education in various European countries. Distance education in various European countries is at different levels of development. We can also notice various implementation models of distance learning in European countries and different levels of government involvement in the development of distance education.

This work is intended as an attempt to illustrate and compare the pattern of fertility in European countries: Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. It deals with the analysis of fertility trends, with an emphasis on birth by parity. Using data from the Human Fertility Database (HFD) from the year 2016, it has considered the parameters of parity progression ratios (PPR), projected parity progression ratios (PPPR), age‑specific fertility rates (ASFR), age‑order specific fertility rates (AOSFR), and cumulated order‑specific fertility rates accordingly analysed. We have applied indicators known as the projected parity progression ratios to estimate trends of fertility. These offer a more detailed view of the family formation process than the traditional total fertility rate (TFR).