"Five organizations from Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Romania and Portugal take part in the ""Culture of Solidarity"" project. The essence of the project is the exchange of good practices and mutual learning. All partners have long been conducting non-standard educational activities based on the use of creative methods in combination with art and cultural heritage. The partners are very different in terms of target groups and methods of operation. The confrontation of various experiences will allow to gain a different perspective on their current activity, adopt new solutions and reflect on what features and skills of educators are universal in the work of all project partners. The difference of the project consists in departing from narrow specialization in order to increase the ability to respond to the changing reality and new challenges resulting from unpredictable phenomena (pandemic, mass migration, climate change). The partners' experiences show that traditional adult education consisting in preparing an educational offer and then recruiting is becoming less and less effective. It is more and more difficult to attract new participants, especially outside large cities and in groups at risk of social exclusion. Therefore, it seems necessary to develop a different approach to non-formal adult education (including young people). The educator should also be an animator working ""from the inside"" and professional artists should work with the local community to create joint works. The role of such an educator is to stimulate selected communities to cultural activity and artistic creativity that arise from the needs and cultural heritage of these communities: discover interesting phenomena, find individualities, build a community within diverse environments. Such activities should be directed primarily to the inhabitants of the borderland, national, ethnic and cultural minorities, migrants and refugees, seniors, the so-called troubled youth.Educational and animation activities should bring lasting, long-term effects, as well as combine many different fields of art and cultural activity. It should also cover human rights and anti-discrimination issues. It should be a culture of solidarity. This can be, for example, the preparation of a theater team working on a play based on local history, organizing literary and photo competitions, etc., combined with workshops, an exhibition, and the publication of works; work on a film about local issues combined with a ceremonial screening, creating a website devoted to local issues, etc. The ability to cooperate with local partners: local authorities, cultural institutions, informal groups of residents is also of great value.The project assumes a departure from excessive specialization, which limits the possibilities of adapting to the changing reality. Organizers and educators should be prepared to work in various environments (age, nationality, religion, cultural heritage). The educator should have unique qualifications: knowledge about the environment, empathy, organizational skills, team building and teamwork skills, etc. The ability to create communities based on shared values is also important. The project involves the exchange of experience in this field among partners very diverse in terms of educational methods and tools, environments in which they work, organizational forms (ngo, public institutions, schools). The aim of the project is to prepare a new type of educators and to enrich the educational offer of the project participants."