Learning Map is a long term project implemented by 4 partners from different backgrounds and countries. Ha Moment from Portugal, dedicated to non-formal education for adults. Badgecraft from Lithuania, a technical partner dedicated to the use and accessibility of Open digital Badges as a tool for recognition of competences. UPB from Germany, an university that also works with adult education and VET schools. Pina from Slovenia, expert in communication and media development, and also working with Adult Education.Education is evolving constantly and the organizations and staff working on that field need to develop competences and methods to keep track of this evolution. The lifelong learning is an important part of that process and needs to be empowered and become attractive for the learners.Adult Education is an important part of the lifelong learning, in complement of other fields of education and youth. The European Commission traced some priorities and conducted research which intends to lead improvement and effectiveness of all policies and provision, and so a report was done stating the following:“Despite these potential benefits, the EU is far from attaining its benchmark of 15% adult participation in learning by 2020. Indeed, there are major challenges to be confronted. At European level, challenges are:· Significantly increasing rates of adult participation in learning, especially for economically inactive, unemployed, older and less skilled adults;· Substantially reducing the number of adults who have only a lower secondary qualification. With this project we intend to work towards and contribute as organizations to meet the benchmarks and priorities delimited by EU, by creating and developing a tool which tracks the learning process in all educational fields and provides a better way to present training offers and what the learners can gain with it.OBJECTIVES:- To create and develop a Learning Map a web tool and adult education method to map, track, monitor, evaluate and recognize the learning and competences of adult learners and lately to adult educators and educational staff . The features of this tool will include be as described in Output 1:- To contribute to the development of the quality of support systems and the capabilities of adult educators.- To increase the motivation of adult education providers to train and develop themselves by investing in their own learning;- To foster the cooperation between different entities from 4 European countries, representing different sectors: university, NGO’s, company.- To introduce new approaches to adult education programmes and strengthen cooperation on how to help educational providers to be more sustainable, and better able to serve the learners needs. -To foster the use of ICT tools in adult educationDuring the project we will have 3 transnational meetings, create and develop 4 intellectual outputs (Learning Map, Methodological Guidelines, Promotional Videos, Research Documentation), and implement local activities and research.Besides the work of each partner individually we will also reach a wider public with the website, the promotional material and dissemination platforms as the European Projects Platform. We expect to reach more 500 people with the website and other 500 with other dissemination activitiesSo in total combined we will reach:Local activities/ trainings: 250 peopleOnline visibility: 3450 peopleMultiplier events: 95 peopleOther dissemination activities: 1000 peopleMuch of the impact desired at different geographical level cross with the ones for participants, organizations, target public and other stake holders. Besides that we expect to:a) Improve assessment and validation of competences and learning outcomes,b) Increase synergies and links between the different sectors of education and training validation and transparency of competences and qualifications;c) Increase use of learning outcomes when describing and defining qualifications, parts of qualifications and curricula, in support to teaching and learning and in assessment;d ) Increase national and transnational cooperation of public authorities in the fields of education and traininge) Increase and motivate towards the use of ICTs and open educational resources (OER) in education and training systems;f) Reinforce interaction between practise, research and policy, using all intellectual outputs of the project. g) Open access to all the results of the project with the plan to keep developing further adapting it according to the needs, comments and suggestions provided by educators and learners. At long term we hope that this project can contribute for improving the Adult Education and other fields of education with a new method and tool to present and recognize learning paths and competences acquired. We expect with that to help not only educators, but also organizations and learners.