Table 2. Search strategy.

Details	Free text terms [title/abstract] and thesauri terms
1. Population: students	Student * ti,ab. Professional ti,ab.
2. Concept: learning needs	((learning or education * or training or knowledge) adj need *))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training or profession * or knowledge) adj development))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training or knowledge) adj relevance))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training or knowledge) adj motivation))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training or knowledge) adj competenc *))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training or knowledge) adj requirement *))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training or knowledge) adj delivery))ti,ab. ((learning or education * or training) adj process))ti,ab. (barrier * N5 facilitator *) N5 learning ti,ab. Education ti,ab. Competenc * ti,ab. CPD ti,ab. Continu * professional development ti,ab. Curricul * ti,ab.
3. Context: healthy and active ageing	((health * or success * or active or positive or productive or vital or resilient or robust or optimal or competent or effective or good or independent or authentic or strategic) adj aging ~ ))ti,ab. ((assist * living or assist * technolog *) AND aging ~ ) NOT machine learning))ti,ab. (aging ~ adj (society or well or productively or “in place”))ti,ab. Age friendly ti,ab. Aging ~ N5 wellbeing ti,ab.
Combination	1 AND 2 AND 3
Limit/filters	English, Slovenian, Portuguese, Finnish, German, Greek full-text language Published between 2000 and 1 July 2021

Key: *, truncation; adj, adjacent to; ~, alternative spellings; Nx, near within x words; ti,ab., title and abstract searches.