The need to provide training and action on skills in terms of data collection and selection in order to be able to set up social impact assessment plans is increasingly becoming a primary objective for cultural organisations such as children's museums; having within children's museums those skills that allow the identification of needs and the evaluation of the impact of their cultural offerings to the community becomes extremely relevant in the skills of the staff working in children's museums. The project represents the improvement of the skills of Children's Museum operators strongly linked to the improvement of the museums' capacity to produce a positive social impact in the territories where they operate. The aim is to create an output that can be used by the whole European community to improve the overall knowledge of Children's Museums.
The need for cultural organisations to be able to assess the social impact that their activities have on society has in recent years become a need of primary importance, which is sometimes requested by the various institutions responsible for setting cultural policies at local, national and even international level. Creating the possibility of training professionals within cultural organisations to carry out such assessments would meet this demand. Children's Museums all over Europe, with their peculiar cultural offer dedicated to large population groups such as children and adolescents, with a direct relationship with the territorial realities in which they are located, can be direct beneficiaries and experimenters of a methodology that starts from training on the selection and collection of useful data to set up a social impact assessment over time.