The project´s objective was to offer an alternative training solution in the care and tourism sector for people who was lowskilled and for long term unemployed people. This comprehensive training solution was designed so that the results were applicable to other sectors and to other countries than the sectors and countries which are represented in the PIECES project. In particular the project was designed to further develop and bring together innovative models developed by the Research and Development Centre, City of Linkoping and Dundee College for the care sector and adapt the innovation involved to the Tourism Sector through the work of Decroly in the Cantabria region of Spain. The innovative models concerned were (a)In Sweden, the model of education/workplace learning (forsoksversksam leten) developed as part of the nationally funded government programme Kompetensstegen which focuses on how learning and capacity building in the workplace can be achieved by interplay between planned training and informal learning in every day work and how such processes can create conditions for practice based innovations,(b)The Tayside Care Academy developed by Dundee College in partnership with the local authority, the National Health Service and the independent care sector to respond to employer workforce requirements e.g. low skilled/unqualified workforce, ageing workforce, gender imbalance and ‘hard to fill’ job vacancies. The academy provides pre vocational programmes targeted at employed people which combine formal learning and on the job learning through work experience placements. The role KARE and Provincia di Parma were seen primary as testing further transnational transfer of innovation through pilots and exploitation.The project has had a positive impact on both target groups and sectors. The main groups targeted in the original application included employers in the care sector and the tourism sector in Spain, and employees and unemployed people including low skilled and part time workers, and groups particularly disadvantaged in the labour market including women, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities. The immediate impact on these groups has been through participation in the piloting of the products developed by the project, and through this participants have acquired skills and competencies, as well as in many cases accreditation and employment.The projects results and more information are available on the project´s website.