CAPABILITY was a 3-year model project (2007–2009) that linked participants (A Kent, UK; U Kristofferson, Sweden; I Nippert and J Schmidtke, Germany) of the EuroGentest unit "Clinical Genetics, Community Genetics and Public Health" and unit "Education" with leading experts from Argentina (C Barreiro, Garrahan Hospital, Buenos Aires), Egypt (R Kamal Raouf, Ministry of Health&Population, Cairo) and South Africa (A Christianson, National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). The experts were chosen because they were engaged in national development projects to integrate genetic services into primary care services in their respective countries.