The project aimed to increase the level of financial competence of adults through a new approach and use of the potential of public libraries as informal educators and institutions of lifelong learning. Project implementers are 4 organizations from 4 Central and Eastern European countries where financial literacy is a significant problem. Two partners are representatives of the library sector, and the other two are foundations engaged in informal adult education, including financial education, in cooperation with public libraries. The overall goal of the project was to equip librarians - a key group of adult educators - with the financial literacy skills to support adult library users in the daily management of their household finances.The target group of the project are librarians from public libraries of different levels in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Slovenia, especially from small towns and rural areas, where the library is usually the only open and accessible cultural institution, education and information center. Indirect target groups are all adult users of library services. As a result of the project implementation, the following results have been achieved:1. An innovative, free and web-based learning management platform for adult educators in four European languages; it is tested and ready for use for librarians and library users finlit.eu;2. An educational programme for adult educators on financial literacy in 4 languages has been developed;3. Developed curriculum and e-learning courses for financial education of adult users in 4 languages;4. 56 librarians from 4 countries trained for the platform and for financial education5. More than 220 adult library users in 4 project countries have improved their financial competences and tested the use of the educational platform;6. Educational and dissemination webinars were broadcast - their recordings are available through the project web sites and finlit.eu;7. A network of local and international exchanges of adult library trainers has been established;8. Awareness has been raised among public libraries, financial institutions, banks, adult organizations and associations, NGOs and other educational institutions about the benefits and advantages of ICT-based learning;9. International partnerships have been established among participating organizations, and methods of distance collaboration in a distributed team have been improved, providing perspective and potential for further collaboration;10. A model of librarian-delivered financial education for adult users of public libraries was developed, ready for multiplication in other countries. Additional (supernumerary) outcomes are:11. Report on mapping of financial education resources and offerings in 4 project countries12. E-learning course for librarians - how to conduct online training (tips and tools).The results of the project will be long lasting in time and provide new services in these locally existing educational ecosystems. The project supports the implementation of growth, education and cohesion policies related to the Europe 2020 Strategy and the European Digital Agenda. It is already known that the project has attracted the interest of state institutions responsible for financial education and its implementers will participate in the development of national strategies for financial education (Bulgaria, Poland). The inclusion of a financial education training program for librarians in the standard training provided by central libraries (Slovenia, Romania) will contribute to the long-term goal of the project, which is to increase the level of financial literacy of the population, as well as offering financial education opportunities that are accessible and tailored to the needs of the audience.

The project ‘Daily innovators and daily educators in the libraries’ aims at the preparation of supportive educational ecosystem for adult learners, with special regard to those living in the areas/districts having poor access to lifelong learning programs and recent cultural developments, as well as to those belonging to groups in danger of social exclusion (such as: unemployed, immigrants, elderly or disabled people). The core of the project infrastructure is a library - a trusted place, a space between the two usual social environments of home and the workplace.Librarians and other local cultural activists, due to their hitherto experience and project achievements, will be expanding their roles and raising their qualifications of local cultural educators for the adult library users. The model and educational materials elaborated within the project will upgrade local cultural educators’ competences, so that they will be able to help adult library users’ improve their basic and transversal skills, in particular social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as well as cultural awareness and expression. The identified learning deficits of both adult users and cultural educators have been collided with the most recent library development trends; on their verge we have specified the areas of intervention in accordance with the users and institutions desired directions:- library as a creative incubator,- library as a center of social innovations,- library as an intercultural dialogue facilitator. The logic cycle and structure of the project will focus on the following elements:1) Research and preparation of a report ‘Learning experiments in the European libraries’: a summary of achievements of European libraries, with special regard to the participating countries. The report will contain:a) the performed analysis of the most substantial issues, affecting the situation of adult library users, local cultural educators and infrastructure & capacity of libraries themselves,b) the profile of educators, trends and tendencies in the contemporary library development,c) the institutional analysis: strategy, factors of successes and failures and ability to evoke the social change.The research report will be supplemented by the outcomes of the learning activities: short-term joint staff training events in the participating countries, providing the details of cultural sector development at the national & EU level.2) The above-mentioned short-term joint staff training events, organized as a series of workshops with on-site visits will be dedicated to the in-depth immersion into the local context in each participating country. The cycle will be summed-up during the foresight workshop in Brussels and will give the basis to the elaboration of new library model. 3) The main intellectual outputs tailor-made for the local cultural educators (librarians and local activists collaborating with the libraries) as well as for the adult library users are: a) MIC (multicultural, innovative and creative) library model: mission, vision and main assumptions of the new library role together with the presentation of library place in the network of internal and external relations.b) Educational materials for local cultural educators: a new curriculum/self-study/study with the expert materials/scenarios strengthening their qualifications in the selected areas as well as giving them a general preparation to work with the adults, manage and carry out the independent projects, communicate and cooperate efficiently. c) Teaching scenarios developed in accordance with the methodology of adult learning processes; enhancing the skills and competences of adult library users to raise their awareness and develop the creative expression, engage in the local community integration processes also with the special regard to the cultural minorities.4) The prepared materials will be tested by the group of ca 20 local cultural educators from Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway in their mother institutions. Once the process of preparation is over, the series of 4 national seminars and 4 international conferences for ca 225 participants will follow. The seminars and conferences will show the results of the project and possible impact of the developed materials, as well as the present good practices, guidelines and recommendations for the local/international policy makers and other important stakeholders. The project will be implemented in a partnership of five organizations:1) The Information Society Development Foundation (Poland),2) The Culture Information Systems Centre (Latvia),3) The Martynas Mažvydas National Library (Lithuania),4) The Oppland County Authority/Oppland County Library (Norway),5) The Reading & Writing Foundation (Netherlands and Belgium).

YourKITE project developed digital media and communication skills of young people, and promoted volunteering and professional orientation in order to ease the youth’s access to the labor market. At the same time, the project promoted entrepreneurship among youth as a way out of unemployment, by developing entrepreneurship knowledge and skills of young people. YourKITE project provided an integrative approach to train and capacitate young people to become skillful entrepreneurs and employees. The project aimed to develop the skills and competences of young people through the following activities:- the creation, for partners use and for other youth organizations and NGOs, of the yourKITE toolkit - a manual for young trainers to conduct workshops on media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling practices, that can be used to enhance youth employability;- the development and improvement of skills and knowledge of partners' staff, through joint staff short-term learning activities and sharing of good practices among partners, on the topics of media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling;- 18 young trainers were trained to use the toolkit in a transnational training, developing their knowledge and skills on the topics mentioned above, but also on how to conduct workshops for youth; then, they reached 466 young people (14-17 years old) conducted workshops in their community and help the young people to develop skills and knowledge on media & communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering, while planning better their future career;- the creation of online training courses on the same topics, for which 113 people enrolled; the online training courses will be further used by partners and other stakeholders in their current or future projects;- the creation of the online platform - yourKITE.org, that provide open access to all the educational tools developed in the project, and to other valuable resources for youth workers, NGOs, youth organizations for enhancing young people's employability by developing essential skills needed on the labor market;- the insight report of the project developed to support other NGOs to organize similar projects, for youth, and and in the international context.The yourKITE toolkit for young trainers, on media and communication, entrepreneurship, volunteering and career counseling, together with the online training courses will be kept online, and these will be integrated in the partners’ regular services provided to young people. Thus, all the partners commit to use the intellectual outputs in their further projects/activities, to provide for free these to their stakeholders or new partners, and to annually train young people/volunteers using the teaching materials created.The project was implemented by:***Norsensus Mediaforum (Norway) with relevant expertise on media and communication, digital skills development, visual storytelling, marketing, visual communication, design, and on working with youth, especially coming for disadvantaged groups, such as migrants;***Fundatia Danis (Romania) with relevant expertise on entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial skills, social entrepreneurship, career orientation for youth, on organizing training courses and workshops for youth, and on providing internships for young people;***FRW, then followed by FAIR (Poland) with relevant expertise on working with youth, including disadvantaged groups, on developing workshops for children and young people, on volunteering activities and on developing life skills through volunteering activities;***FRSI (Poland) with relevant expertise on developing digital skills of young people, on working with youth and young adults, on providing career orientation and career counseling, and on organizing webinars and online training courses.Stakeholders: 59 Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and international youth organizations, entrepreneurship centers, high schools, universities, and other NGOs were targeted during the project, mainly through the dissemination activities, through joint staff training courses, where they were invited as relevant stakeholders to provide specific support to the partners, but also through feedback activities, when they were involved in providing their inputs for the yourKITE toolkit, and for the online training course and the yourKITE platform.

<< Objectives >>The main objective is to reach out to people with reading difficulties and second language readers (migrants) in Poland, Germany, Norway and Ukraine, to help them become life-long learners and active community members, through facilitated reading & learning events in libraries and access to curated books and online materials. The project will prepare librarians to become community integration leaders and will support libraries as safe non- formal learning environments.<< Implementation >>We will map and share the best practices in barrier free book development and methods of reaching out to non-readers (a toolkit), print barrier free books, prepare materials for educators & librarians and train the staff-educators so they could deliver training for librarians in their countries. Librarians will test the new methodology by organising “shared reading”, “language cafes’ and other learning and integration events in libraries. Results will be disseminated and made available online.<< Results >>We will have tested best practices on reaching out and overcoming barriers that encounter second language readers (from migrant background ) and people with reading difficulties caused by dyslexia, illness or age related problems. 12 Staff educators and 60 librarians will be trained and prepared to share & implement the new methods. 12 barrier free books and 28 pilot events in libraries will give a chance to 100 non-readers and migrants to become active learners and members of local communities.

The main goal of the Learning circles in libraries project was to make it easier for adults to access useful online content, help them study effectively and improve their lifelong learning skills. The main activity aimed at achieving this goal was to implement in libraries the so called ‘learning circles’, understood as groups of people who meet regularly in the library to learn something together. People who participate in them use online courses available, free-of-charge, on the Internet, share their knowledge and experiences, and learn from each other, being supported by the learning circle’s facilitator. Facilitators don't need to have expert knowledge - such knowledge comes from courses and other online resources, as well as from the community of learners.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of which took place during the project implementation, an additional goal of the project was added: to prepare facilitators of learning circles to organize and run engaging online meetings. The project’s implementation consisted of 6 parts: 1) analysis of the state of adult education in the project partners’ countries, with particular emphasis on online learning; (2) development of educational materials - including database of available online courses (280 resources), training curriculum, a manual for facilitators, online course for people participating in learning circles, instructional videos, and a collection of good practices; (3) trainings of facilitators’ trainers (13 educators) and their pilot learning circles (all virtually);(4) project results dissemination including training of 89 librarians - learning circles facilitators (virtually);(5) pilot learning circles in libraries (32) attended by over 200 participants virtually and in person; (6) updating of educational resources taking into account experience from virtual learning circles. The idea of learning circles and the experience of libraries participating in the project were disseminated during online events, thanks to which the information and project resources reached over 1000 people from libraries in the countries participating in the project (Finland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Romania). The trainers developed various means of support and communication tools for librarians who plan to organize future learning circles, and are ready to support new groups of librarians interested in implementing learning circles in their libraries.