So far, basic education projects have been mainly focused on employed low-skilled people. With Quicksteps, we wanted to expand this radius decisively, not only to the target group of unemployed, low-qualified people, but to all adults with basic skills needs in order to enable them to participate in Lifelong Learning and the labor market. Increasing demands characterize society and the working world and ensure a growing importance of basic education; without sufficient basic education, many people are excluded from social participation. With intensive basic training courses, this target group can often not be reached at first, as the benefits and the planned time spent on the target group are neither attractive nor plausible. Content is perceived as being too abstract and too detached from one's own situation; successes can only be achieved and planned in the long term (if at all). Moreover, there is often a barrier to participate in formal learning settings. With this first phase of the project Quicksteps, a foundation for the actually following application and implementation phase was developed: through the exchange of experiences, together we developed approaches and conceptual foundations. Quicksteps stands for effective, small-scale and learner-centered basic education units. Small learning units (SLUs) should be offered in a perspective, which take into account the individual needs and the concrete living and working situation, and thus give an incentive to use them (quick hits), and so to encourage further education processes; this can be linked to existing basic training programs. The project consortium consisted of three partners: Stiftung Berufliche Bildung (SBB), Hamburg / Germany; Euroform RFS, Rende and Turin / Italy; Inspire, Graz / Austria. Since 1982, SBB has successfully implemented the parliamentary mandate to enable disadvantaged people to enter the labor market through the provision of suitable educational services, thereby enabling social participation. With its subsidiaries in Hamburg, it is one of the largest providers of professional qualification training courses. Representatives of the most important employers' associations and chambers are members of the Board of Trustees and incorporate the topic of basic education and the project results into their associations. Inspire is an independent organization based in Graz/ Austria, founded in 2009. Inspire designs education and management processes interdisciplinarily, interculturally and focuses on the principle of dialogue. The inspire association implements projects: In addition to EU-funded projects, it is mainly networking and strategy projects; among others, for the Austrian federal ministries and the state government, e.g. the "Basic education network". Euroform RFS is a vocational training institution established in 1996, which is active in the field of vocational education and guidance, and organizes training courses in various fields, e.g. Italian language courses for foreigners, etc. Euroform RFS brings together vocational training experts in a wide range of topics, including thematic references to the analysis and comparison of the different European education systems. Numerous mobility projects have already been carried out, enabling trainees and students to do internships in Italian companies. The transnational meetings were primarily used to exchange experiences, to promote knowledge transfer into existing networks and to develop a conceptual basis for the Quicksteps project. The results have been worked out and are available for further use on the project website. These are in particular: SLU definition, SLU categories, the 5-step model and examples for the design of SLUs. The transfer of knowledge into our networks has been maintained, whether locally through information dissemination and discussion attended events or as a special point during our project meetings. Among others, there was e.g. in Graz a colleague of the educational institution atempo, who brought his positive experiences with regard to the use of digital media in the classroom with persons with disabilities, or we organized on-site excursions, e.g. in Hamburg, the visit of the educational institution Jugend in Arbeit (see also the meeting report on the project website). The SLU concept is valuable for all partners involved, and we expect that in our future work, there will be good connection points for the future use in various learning contexts.