This document gives a summary of the main results of a conference held in May, 1986 and entitled "Adult Education and Community Development--Challenge and Response." The Conference marked the end of the Council of Europe's Project No. 9, which considered adult education as a factor of cultural, social, and economic innovation in integrated local and regional development. The conference provided an opportunity to reiterate the goals of Project No. 9 with respect to chronic underdevelopment, unemployment, and the effects of rapid industrialization and urbanization on social and cultural values and to explain the principles of the cooperative monitoring method that was used in implementing the projects' 14 pilot projects. The importance of regarding adult and continuing education as a human right and a continuous process enabling individuals to acquire and deepen their knowledge and experience was stressed, and policymakers were urged to promote a spirit of initiative and the involvement of all in development action, to set up networks for the exchange of information and experience, to make collective self-learning possible through cross-fertilization and intercultural exchanges, and to continue the efforts begun during Project No. 9 to develop an international network of cooperation in adult education. The major activities of the conference are reviewed in a paper entitled "General Summary Report of the Conference" by Hugues de Jouvenel. A list of documents issued in the framework of Project 9 concludes the report. (MN)