BACKGROUND & CHALLENGESTaMPADA focused on the need of Adult Education Providers (hereinafter AEPs) to track lifelong and lifewide progress pathways of disadvantaged learners. In fact, it was often noted and observed that life basic skills and competences growth from learners, coming from disadvantaged settings, were granted no validation with counter effect on learners’ personal up skilling and on AEP’s effort to link their informal learning with formal education and employment routes. Having the above-mentioned in mind, TaMPADA developed a toolkit for measuring learners’ lifelong and lifewide progress. Finally, considering the fact that adult learners from disadvantaged settings is difficult to reach and measure the project developed an ICT web-based tool and community inter-institutional synergies with intermediary organizations. This is what TaMPADA attempted to achieve throughout its life span. OBJECTIVES TaMPADA achievements: - Developed an ICT and community-based outreach framework and monitoring toolkit for AEP’s to enhance learners centered approached to quality assurance: tampadadigitaltool.eu in 5 languages. - Anchored this framework to both evolving and emerging quality assurance practices in adult education in the EU.- Yielded benefits for public authorities and AEPs from the exchange of good practices and the promotion and harmonization of tracking and monitoring procedures. THE TaMPADA PARTNERSHIPThe partnership comprised of 5 partners with complementary skills and long experience and expertise on adult education. DACES, AZM and Folkuniveritetet have a long-standing engagement with marginalized and socially disadvantaged learners and played an important role in adult education since they represent networks of learning centers regionally and nationally.LLLP leveraged the communication of TaMPADA framework EU wide and ensured maximum dissemination and impact across adult education networks, policy – making and implementation circles.PROMEA brought significant expertise on ICT-based methodology and tool development, contributed to increasing the framework’s tracking and monitoring potential for impact and sustainability by mobilizing and developing digital resources for use by AEPs. ACTIVITIES & METHODOLOGYThe TaMPADA partnership successfully explored indicators and identified those affecting disadvantaged learners’ lifelong and lifewide progress. Also, partners developed a methodology for AEPs to use open data resources at regional, national and EU level. In addition, the partnership developed a monitoring tool for monitoring disadvantaged learners’ lifelong and lifewide progress combing results from surveys and other public datasets. Moreover, the partnership developed a framework addressed to AEPs, which covers two dimensions: web-based and communities (inter-institutional) synergies. Finally, the partnership developed an ICT based monitoring toolkit to be used independently and/or in the context of inter-institutional community synergies (tampadadigitaltool.eu), which was validated by AEPs and at a later stage the partnership also produced a policy recommendations paper. RESULTS & IMPACTThe TaMPADA consortium:- Raised awareness and improved partners and other AEPs networks’ capacity for learner-centered approach and long-term impact assessment.-Increased AEPs capacity to provide quality assured skills and uplifted competences of disadvantaged adult learners to respond better to their personal and societal needs.-Increased visibility and transparency of tracking and monitoring practices by developing the ICT web-based tool and evidence collection framework available to all AEPs.-Extended networks and synergies among AE stakeholders, AEPs, community organizations and authorities by producing the operational framework for inter-institutional synergies.-Strengthened links between informal and formal education pathways - Organized 11 information days to promote project results, gathering 368 participants. POST-PROJECT SUSTAINABILITYThe TaMPADA partners managed to promote the use of TaMPADA web-based toolkit, extended strategy and recommendations to AEPs and community education providers. Additionally, up took and diffused project materials to relevant regulating authorities and networks of AEPs across the EU and finally managed to advance national strategies by supporting, refining and harmonizing tracking and monitoring initiatives set forth by TaMPADA.