Considering Learning to Learn to be the most crucial Key Competence in the EuropeanUnion LLP (especially in the political context of the Lisbon Strategy) this project aims atdeveloping, testing and implementing a new and innovative approach in the field of nonformaladult education in order to provide learners with the required skills andknowledge enabling them to plan, organise and assess their own learning process. Thisapproach will change the existing format of adult education (teaching) and hassubstantial consequences for the educational staff facilitating these learning processesin terms of alternative competences and methodology. This is the reason the projectfocuses on this group by providing guidelines and a handbook with tools for learning tolearn and involving them in two training courses. A literature review on practice,research and policy will back up this material.Training course results will be applied in 7 pilot and 20 satellite projects of adulteducation in 15 - 20 countries. This will demonstrate that “Learning to Learn” as a keycompetence has a clear European dimension in any adult education activity. The pilotandsatellite projects will be closely monitored by the trainers’ team and researchersduring the practice analysis phase to evaluate the impact of the new learning approachon the facilitators and the participants in the 27 projects.The project will use a website with a virtual platform where the project development canbe followed and experiences can be discussed. Articles will be published and allmaterial will be freely available. The website and the virtual platform will continue inorder to set up and to maintain an active Community of Practice in Europe around thetopic of learning to learn. One year after the project a European conference will beorganised to present consolidated findings and conclusions to a wider audience,including policy decision makers and adult education researchers, to further promote thelearning to learn concept.