At ‘Libraries of Things’ (LoTs) or ‘tool libraries’, members can borrow for free, or at a low cost, from a range of items, reducing the quantity of items they need to purchase new, use perhaps only a few times, and eventually discard. This gives people the opportunity to participate in a circular economy and learn more about climate change. Piquing people’s interest through access to tools and equipment allows organisations to engage new audiences of people who are not necessarily usually engaged in climate change or sustainability issues. It makes the circular economy something easy to understand and attractive to be part of. When they learn how this has an impact on their carbon footprint, this can open channels to discuss other areas of climate change, especially through further training. It also gives people access to tools required to learn and practice a range of basic skills. While some people might be interested in learning sewing and mending, for example, this might not be something they will pursue without being able to use a sewing machine. LoTs can therefore offer a range of training opportunities and have a unique space to make these accessible to all, breaking down financial barriers to those who could benefit most.There are three partners in this project. Transition Stirling is an environmental organisation based in Stirling, UK, aiming to help people in Stirlingshire transition to a more resilient, sustainable way of living. This has been done through a series of projects including activities on woodland management, and since 2016, the establishment of the second tool library in the UK where 850 members borrow a range of do-it-yourself, gardening, and other equipment and run workshops on a range of skills such as growing food, sewing and mending textiles and furniture upcycling, a repair service and creative wood reuse workshop using waste wood to build items. Ziniu Kodas is a non-profit institution in Vilnius, Lithuania, working in different learning programmes for youth, the elderly and people with disabilities and has the mission to create an educated society and knowledge that would help to reduce social exclusion and to enable all members of our society to actively participate in the labour market. CWEP is an organisation located in Rzeszow, Poland, that aims at increasing the quality of education and training, often through the use of IT solutions and digital technologies.The aim of this project is to inspire and enable other organisations to establish LoTs in order to increase these opportunities for improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities for adults, supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competencies in creative ways and meeting environmental and climate goals. The project also aims at bringing together knowledge and experience of setting up LoTs in different social and economic contexts, making this information accessible to organisations who would like to set up new LoTs in other municipalities, regions and countries as well as ensuring that these are more accessible to people with fewer advantages.Examples of training that can be provided through LoTs:- Repair- Wood-working- Do-It-Yourself- Furniture upcycling- Sewing and mending textiles- Textile upcyclingProject goals will be achieved by creating an online interactive platform to catalogue information and resources from LoTs in other countries and offer advice to others in Europe to set up an LoT and to disseminate the findings of the project. A 'Libraries of Things Guide' will also be created with practical information to help potential LoTs learn how to set them up and organise the training opportunities described above. This second part of the project will include the delivery of three workshops in each partner country engaging 90 people. Efforts will be made to work with people with fewer advantages in these workshops. Transition Stirling will bring in experience setting up their own LoT in the UK by selecting the trainings related to repair and reuse workshops. Ziniu Kodas will lead on the inclusion of people with fewer opportunities in project activities that aim at offering participants skills development and inclusion through enhancing volunteers' skills in a range of areas such as wood-working. CWEP will develop new pedagogies and online digital technologies to make materials more accessible and easily understandable to participants.While many people are willing to share things with others, the sharing of everyday goods is lagging behind its potential in Europe. Only 33 of the 249 LoTs worldwide are in Europe, most of them in the UK (10) and Germany (9). This project could therefore have a massive impact by bringing new skills and competencies by raising awareness of the benefits of LoTs and increase the rate of establishment in Europe and encourage organisations and participants to take part in the circular economy.