ContextProject EU-OBP: European Open Badges Platform wants to assess, develop and promote the common EU platform for digital badges, targeted at adult education organizations, adult educators and adult learners that also represent the main target groups. Open badge is a file of the shape of an icon or medal issued to prove skills or achievements of people. The file contains metadata: name of the issuer, the criteria it was issued under, evidence verifying the credential and expiry date. Open badges are available as open standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges. Main advantage of open badges is their availability and representational opportunities. They present innovative tools for recognition of achieved soft skills to employers or educators, and could be included into EU-based Europass CV system.Common EU open badges platform will allow a) adult education organizations to offer digital badges to local and EU-wide public, b) adult educators to gain new IT competence and innovative tool for recognition of soft skills and key competences and c) learners in adult education possibility to be awarded with badges on EU level and use them for future job seeking or further educational needs.Objectivesa) Project EU-OBP wants to upgrade results from 2 Erasmus+ projects (iYOT, www.iyot.eu and OBADE, www.open-badges.eu) with participation of previously included organizations and two new partners.b) Partners will research available projects, platforms or organizations to deliver the complete EU-OBP web platform with » Reader«, “Toolbox”, » Guidelines«, all available as open source. c) Partners want to promote open badges for recognition of “soft skills” and 8 key competences in EU area, and anticipate at least 500 open badges for adult education available on the platform until the end of project.Participants- 5 partner meetings, 16 professional staff from adult education - 7 national multiplier events with 185 participants (adult teachers, mentors, stakeholders, adult education organizations)- 1 international conference in Slovenia with up to 100 participants (partners, adult teachers, mentors, stakeholders, adult education organizations, local municipality, national representatives from policy makers)- 25 initiated networks between partners and the local community (partners, stakeholders)- 500 registered users on web platform (adult learners)Activities P1 will prepare the Project Management Handbook and distribute it to at the Kick-off. It will contain a timetable with short description of every deliverable and name of responsible partner. It will also contain financial and administrative rules, budget monitoring with templates and rules of communication. It will be dash-boarded on the internal website and constantly updated.Management and monitoring activity assures effective and smooth cooperation among partners, prevention and solution of possible problems incurred, monitoring of activities and impact, attainment of the planned goals of the project.Implementation of methodology and IOs will develop all the IOs of the project. Methodology partners are going to use is: online desk research, interviews and telephone discussions, Skype sessions, working groups, individual research, digital and standard peer-testing of digital materials, proof-reading for finalization.O1 Reader will be developed until meeting 2. O2 Toolkit will be developed until meeting 3. O3 (EU-OBP platform) will be developed in Version 1 for testing phase and final administration before meeting 4 and finalized for multiplier events for exploitation. O4 (Guidelines) will be presented final conference in Slovenia.Dissemination and exploitation will be carried out from the start of the project up to 3 years after the end, based on IOs results and delivered through national multipliers, workshops and final conferenceIn summary, EU-OBP project will develop:-1 Reader for theoretical background on advantages of open badges -1 Toolkit for practical presentation of good practices -1 Web Platform offering open source access to 500 validated and already used open badges for adult education for recognition of soft skills and 8 key competences in common digital cloud space-1 Guidelines listing the procedures and activities needed for open badges implementation on 3 levels: organizational, teacher/mentor and participant level-140 new open badges, uploaded onto EU-OBP platform -10 videos to show how to create open badges and share them on social mediaThe project satisfies the needs of adult education organizations and educators to dispose of a easy to use, digital, motivating tool for identifying and documenting results of not formal, informal and formal learning. The project satisfies also the needs of adult learners to reflect on their skills acquired in not formal and informal learning, to have their skills documented and to share easily with peers and educators their accomplishments.