The Eu Sustainable Development Strategy considers the creation of sustainable communities as the way to improve life quality and to pursue a low-carbon economy path. This entails a planning of sustainable local development able to integrate needs of peripheral areas, tackling the Eu polycentric tendency, in order to maintain their economic activity and attractiveness. The starting point is a sustainable local development able to intercept green economy sectors, through a multidisciplinary approach. An approach difficult to tackle especially in non-urban areas where local authorities lack enough resources to train or hire a professional ad hoc. The result is often a fragmented local planning, increasing territorial polarization. Thus, professionals able to design territorial development plans, interfacing with technical and policy level actors, are strongly needed. The professional figure of the EESLD, European Expert in Sustainable Local Development that the project intends to create reply to this demand, also considering that most partner countries show high/medium levels of unemployment both if we refer to young people <25 and age group 25-54. Besides tackling young VET needs related to the job market, the project will analyse, at transnational level, skills identification and validation systems, focusing in particular on the valorisation of non-formal and informal competences, in response to the EC Recommendation 2012/C 398/I asking member states to implement stable systems of validation. To reach project objectives, SKILLeD will implement:-a Curriculum for the European Expert in Sustainable Local Development, defining the transnational standardized profile and a training programme, articulated in modules and learning outcomes to be uploaded on an open E-learning platform.-a Transnational Skills Validation Methodology, including: a tool for identification and validation of non-formal and informal competences; the final exam structure, to be used for the selection of 25 participants that, at the end of the training course will participate to 7 cases studies (one per each partner country) in the form of a working groups activity, applying acquired competences to define innovative solutions in a problem solving approach.-a Toolbox for Sustainable Local Development Expert training path, including a handbook collecting project results, training material and case studies description and solution, then an operational guide for training operators explaining how to build and use a transnational curriculum and the skills validation tool.This means that the project will not end upon its closure, but is designed to become sustainable and continue on a long term through project outputs and results built to become transferable and high quality deliverables that can be easily and widely integrated in other contexts.Two main target groups will be addressed:- VET learners aged 24 to 35, currently unemployed or underemployed, university (human, economics and social science and hard sciences - engineering, architecture, etc.), or High School graduates, including post-school diplomas, and/or VET post-graduates also having sectorial competences or previous experiences on sustainable development subjects. They will be provided with crosscutting and transversal competences, ranging from technical topics to entrepreneurial and soft skills, through an online training course and a work-based learning experience in a working groups activity with the support of 7 experienced mentors.- over 35 persons, experienced in the field of sustainable local development, employed or who intend to re-qualify their skills, benefitting from the Transnational Skills Validation methodology and the access to the online training course to fill eventual gaps.In addition, a wide network of stakeholders will be addressed, in particular:-enterprises, businesses, freelances dealing with local development, green economy, spatial planning, mobility, tourism, etc. who can cooperate with the newly trained Experts to increase their competitiveness, representing a job opportunity for target groups.-territorial bodies, municipalities, local authorities: potential employers and contractors, they can also benefit from national contexts analysis, improving decision-making processes, developing new approaches, policies, etc.-training agencies, universities operators, improving their knowledge on how to build a transnational professional profile and a transnational skills validation methodology focusing on non-formal/informal competences.Eight partners coming from Italy, Austria, Spain, Romania, Turkey and Greece belonging to different domains and dealing with different topics (training, counselling, local development, mobility, tourism…), will cooperate to provide these opportunities to a wide number of individuals and organizations, also through a widespread dissemination strategy.