Vakka-Suomi Adult Education Centre has an important role in Vakka-Suomi region as an active provider of self-motivated studying and learning opportunities for ordinary people of different ages. It is important for us to be flexible, up to date and quick in responding to the demands of the changing society. We are constantly trying to improve the quality of our work and searching for new ideas and ways to be able to offer our students and staff possibilities for self-development and for learning new skills that are expected of them in today’s world. The Common Assessment Framework model for quality assessment is in use in our organisation and recently we also received the National Certificate for Sustainable Development. We started our two-year project NICE – New Ideas and Cooperation in Education, as over the years we had taken part in various projects but mostly on regional and national levels and we felt we needed to add a European aspect in our development work. NICE was our first international project involving the whole organisation. We continued our development work in areas, such as recording and preserving local heritage digitally, sustainable development, lifelong learning, as well as online teaching and social media, but wished to find out how these matters were dealt with in other countries. We also wanted to get new ideas, exchange experiences and share our knowledge. Getting more experience on international cooperation and projects was another important objective for us. Motivated staff is essential for all development work, thus, increasing our staff’s motivation as well as linguistic competences, and raising their intercultural awareness, were all important objectives for us as we were hoping to establish new contacts that would lead to future European cooperation. The persons involved in the mobilities were selected on a voluntary basis amongst our permanent staff who were responsible for course planning and in direct contact with our part-time teachers. This way we could maximise the impact of our project on our whole organisation. Our permanent staff is relatively small and not all were interested or able to participate in the activities. The ones taking part in the mobilities were our two planners, two head teachers (handicrafts and languages) and one head of department. Most of them had not taken part in this kind of mobilities before. As our head language teacher is also responsible for our online courses and the platform we use, and the planners for sustainable development as well as recording local heritage digitally, all our main themes were covered. We were granted ten mobilities. As we sent in our application, none of our partners were decided yet and finding suitable receiving organisations turned out to be more difficult than we had expected. We organised three activities using eight mobilities. Plans were being made also for the fourth one but we were not able to complete it in time. The first mobility was accomplished by our language teacher who attended a two-week Spanish refresher course in Salamanca. The second activity was planned to be a job-shadowing type of visit to an educational organisation but, as a suitable receiving organisation was not found, two of our staff members participated in an international conference on Learning in Later Life which was well in line with our objectives. The conference was held on the premises of Open University, in Milton Keynes where they also met people who specialise in online teaching. Our third activity was a study visit as planned but our destination was changed when we learned that some cooperation had recently been started between Vakka-Suomi region and the region of Marennes-Oléron in France. There were plans to establish some long-term cooperation between the two areas and we considered this to be an excellent opportunity for our project. Our receiving organisation provided our five participants with a full and varied programme, covering most of our areas of interest. All things considered, the main objectives of our project were achieved rather well. The participants gained a lot from this project professionally, but more importantly, they felt it raised their cultural awareness, built up their confidence and improved their linguistic competences. They were all satisfied with their mobility experiences and willing to participate in international projects also in the future. Establishing new contacts, exchanging ideas and the competences acquired and improved have brought a totally new European value to our development work which is probably the most important outcome of our project.