Building on work done in 2001, the project aim is to include four new partner countries (Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Bulgaria) and at the same time to update the work accomplished in the three original countries of the RELAIS project (France, Italy and Romania - F/01/B/F/PP-118049). The partners will focus on the problems of training social workers (both professional and voluntary) to deal with marginalised people. As well as a survey of the problem of marginalisation in the different countries, the project aims to produce a training course with specific content relating to the different groups of people in need (elderly people, children and young people).