1. To generate scalable knowledge and resources enabling the acquisition of new skills among adult educators seeking to motivate and empower civil society and active citizens with skills and perspectives for transnational initiatives. 2. Improve the quality and scope of adult education through the development of a skills and learning framework, an innovative curriculum and digital learning resources that respond to the learning needs of active citizens and civil society to act more effectively in diverse cultures and contexts, and to increase their capacity to lead transversal and cross-sectoral community initiatives. 3. Innovate in learning methods and frameworks that support active democratic citizenship, using peer learning and communities of practice, and share these innovations for impact across the sector. 4. Exploit and build on the results of other European projects.
Our project is based on research showing that, in a context of multiple and interdependent crises, society is increasingly complex, fragmented and polarized. This makes it particularly difficult for adults to be active citizens, and creates persistent divisions within and between organizations, communities and movements. Citizens lack the knowledge, skills and abilities to navigate this complex, ambiguous and unstable context; to set up collective initiatives; to develop cooperative actions across borders; and to establish links with European institutions. Our research into the learning needs of active adults across Europe as part of this project corroborates pre-project research, suggesting significant needs for skills to work transversally across themes and transnationally across geographical areas, as well as needs to increase resilience, avoid burnout and know how to adopt agile strategies to promote social and political change.