The global economic and social challenges in Europe are common and similar, reflecting into the needs of education and the education provision. The economic recession seems to continue, which means reductions in state funding for education, including the education provided for adults. On the one hand there is a number of adults without any certificate or diploma needing education, on the other hand the educated people need to improve their skills - and in many cases it is necessary to study a totally new profession. To serve these two groups of adults is a matter of social and economic competitive ability. In order to cope with these challenges in the target groups and in the overall society, the adult educators need to keep renewing their skills as well. It is not enough that they update the professional skills of the field in question, but they have to develop and fully understand the teaching skills needed for the new target groups, better understand the essential needs of working life to overcome the economical crisis, and to fully understand and internalize the meaning of entrepreneurship as a driving force of the economy. The big question is how to provide high quality vocational adult education, that supports adults to achieve their goals in skills development and in achieving new qualifications needed in the labor market. The SHAPE –project will systematically scrutinize adult education provision and training in five 5-day further training workshops from six thematic perspectives, survey the best practices developed and used in partner organizations within these themes, and take a step further by identifying possible next practices that partners can take home and put into practice. Target groups are adult educators, management-level responsable for the adult education provision, staff responsible for quality assurance, development staff, and researchers. The SHAPE furhter training workshop themes and partner countries are - Slovenia: Professional development of adult education staff - Denmark: Qualification labels for professional in higher education, implications to adult education sector - Italy: Quality assurance in Adult Education provision - France: Key competences and entrepreneurship - Finland (2 themes): Young adult's and adults’ upskilling programmes. Competence-based vocational qualifications as a cost-effective way of providing vocational education for adults. In-depth, analytical presentations are prepared for the further training workshops. The workshops are about understanding the issues and core aspects underlining partners’ implementation of the SHAPE themes on national level, and providing the partners with new insights as well as methodologies, methods, tools and practices in vocational adult education provision. The innovation lies within the SHAPE-approach of combining further training with content development. Participants to further training workshops are “brain-picked” to co-create an in-depth analytical paper “Best and next practices in vocational adult education provision”, covering the workshop theme in English. In order to facilitate wider dissemination potential, Keuda as coordinator will compile a final e-output “Best and next practices in vocational adult education provision in five European countries”. It will be an analytical synthesis in English, drawing from the five WS analytical papers and introducing briefly each theme, including challenges, best practices and next practices in five European countries.