The European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu 2017) states the urgent need for educators to develop a specific set of digital competences in order to be able to seize the potential of digital technologies in enhancing and innovating education and Towards Maturity ‘The Transformation Journey’ 2019 reports that among Learning Professionals:•93% identified facilitating collaboration for learning as a priority, however in 2018 only 34% have that skill•92% identified digital content creation as a required skill, but only 31% have these skillsThe skills of Educators and Trainers are having to change from those of being the ‘sage on the stage’ (creating and presenting learning), to a ‘curator-concierge’ model - directing learners to excellent existing learning content. This is a shift in mind set as well as skill set. Educators are also increasingly confronted with the challenge of sourcing, filtering, creating and managing digital content to enhance learning effectiveness. Within the context of developing and delivering Blended Learning, Collaborative and Self-Directed Learning programmes for adult learners, the ‘Critical Curation and Collaboration in Learning’ (Cur8) project will focus on applying Critical Digital Literacy skills to learning content. Fundamental to this approach is the use of Critical Digital Literacy skills - skills that are needed in order to aggregate and filter relevant content. Critical Curation therefore plays an essential role in the learning process and serves as an important digital literacy requirement for knowledge workers. It occupies a central position in the ‘meaning-making’ process in a digital age (Betts & Payne 2016). Positioning Curation as an element of Critical Digital Literacy further enriches current conversations about digital literacy and educational technology.The Cur8 project addresses these challenges by supporting the development of the specific digital competences needed by Educators and Trainers (CVET and VET providers, Workplace Trainers and Adult Educators) in order to apply the ‘curator-concierge’ model in the teaching and learning strategies. It focuses on the development of the specific competences of:•curating, creating and sharing digital learning resources•managing and orchestrating collaborative and self-directed learning, and•empowering and actively engaging learnerswith the aim of fostering efficient, effective, inclusive and collaborative learning strategies for adult learners.Critical content curation offers the opportunity to source learning content in dynamic, learner-centred and socially-interactive ways in order to support an inquiry-based pedagogy. It is relevant to both Educators AND learners who, through the Cur8 project, will be encouraged to become digital curators who not only consume information that they find on the internet, but also evaluate and synthesise it to meet learning needs.The objectives of the Cur8 project are to addresses the urgent need to update the digital competences of Educators and Trainers by:Creating an innovative Train-the-Trainer format, with supporting Toolbox and Learning Experience Platform, for competence development in facilitating collaboration for learning and digital content creation Providing educators and trainers (direct target group) with useful skills and action-oriented methods on how to develop critical digital literacy skills for learning and digital learning content creationEnhancing the digital and self-directed learning competences of adult learners (final beneficiaries), Thus increasing the use of digital technologies by educators and trainers, especially through the application of critical digital literacy skills, learning content curation and collaborative learning techniques.In terms of concrete products the ‘Critical Curation and Collaboration in Learning’ project will develop:1.A Transnational Stocktaking Report and Educator Engagement Strategy 2.The Cur8 Train-the-Trainer Format for Educators and Trainers3.The Cur8 Toolbox for Educators and Trainers4.The Cur8 Learning Experience Platform5.The Cur8 Experience Report and RoadmapCur8 will be put into practice in a Transnational Training Activity with 18 adult educators, who then pilot the approach with other educators and adult learners in their respective country. 140 more educators, trainers and multipliers will be informed about the project outputs and instructed how to use them in the pilots and by multiplier events, and at least 120 adult learners will be directly involved in the project.The main outputs will be continued to be offered online after the end of the project and designed in a way which makes it easy for educators and trainers to apply the Cur8 training in different CVET/VET contexts.The partnership is led by Apricot, United Kingdom, and has experienced adult education providers from Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Sweden