The aim of the project was to enable the Library staff in charge of the organization and development of adult education, the development and training of curricula and educators in advanced European public libraries and training centers, and to provide a wider range of adult education services in the library. The main goal of the project has been achieved. In the long run, new services will be initiated for Library staff, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the international qualification of the Erasmus + program and taking over the experience of advanced EU libraries, and strengthening the library users' cultural and information competences and literacy activities. and motivation to participate in lifelong learning.
Thanks to the Erasmus + program (the third Adult Education Mobility Project) Panevėžys County G. Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library (hereinafter the Library) strives to maintain the leading position of library specialists in the field of non-formal adult education in Panevėžys region. This is achieved by implementing the institution's strategic plans and adopting the best practices of the Cultural institutions of EU countries, as well as by getting acquainted with training innovations and methods, new training services, receiving consultations, information materials, contacts, and establishing useful cooperation connections. In order to maintain its leading position, the Library has to introduce cultural and information services to its users, which would promote active participation in society, foster people's hobbies and lifelong learning. The library is committed to sharing valuable experience with library specialists in the Panevėžys region. It was important for the Library to implement this project due to the strengthening of the andragogic competencies of staff and the continuity of international professional cooperation with advanced foreign institutions providing informal education and the creation of new services for users.