In 2017, still 61 million adults aged 25 to 64 had stopped their formal education before completing upper secondary education. Through the Upskilling Pathways Recommendation, Member States agreed to adopt a strategic approach to provide joined-up learning opportunities to the EU’s 61 million low-skilled adults, built on easily accessible pathways and comprising three steps, starting with skills assessment to identify existing skills and upskilling needs.A skills audit is a process aimed at identifying and analysing the knowledge, skills and competences of an individual, including his or her aptitudes and motivations in order to define a career project and /or plan a professional reorientation or training project; the aim of a skills audit is to help the individual analyse his/her career background, to self-assess his/her position in the labour environment and to plan a career pathway, or in some cases to prepare for the validation of non-formal or informal learning outcomes. Nevertheless, as previous researches and projects evidence, the relationship between validation and skills audits is not always clear to stakeholders and the level of integration between validation and skills audits varies, depending on the type of audit. The conclusions of the study on ‘Mapping Skills Audits in and across the EU’ (2017;E.C) outlined that, in order to be effective, the skills audit process needs to be tailored to target groups. The analysis also identifies several trends that could be gaining importance in the future, including the use of digital tools. Technology is increasingly being used as an intermediary solution. For example, the use of technology to develop open badges or online portfolios which are easily storable (i.e. online), can have a process of external validation as well. The aim of ASSESS PLUS is to support Skills Audits in adult education through innovative digital tools and products to make available skills identification and screening, including the validation of skills acquired through informal and non-formal learning, and facilitate the progress of low-skilled and disadvantaged adults towards higher qualifications.To do so, seven European adult education providers, experts in skills assessment and validation and in digital solutions applied to training and employment from six countries, France, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Bulgaria and Greece, will work together to co-create a set of innovative tools and digital solutions, including: - a European Framework of Competences in Skills Audits for Adult Education (IO1) - an ASSESS PLUS Virtual CAMPUS (IO2), that Includes the following Open Educational Resources: (i) an Online Instructional Guide on Digital Competencies for Virtual Learning; (ii) a set of structured Training Modules (iii) VET Open Online Courses (VOOC) - a Mobile Assessment App for Skills Audits (IO3)- a Guidelines to promote transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications through Skills Audits in Adult Education (IO4)Target users and beneficiaries are: (i) Counsellors, guidance personnel, assessors and practitioners involved with validation (ii) Disadvantaged adults. ASSESS PLUS will involve directly 70 target users (40 partner´s staff /25 experts involved / 5 target users in pilots), 125 disadvantaged adults (in pilots) and 36 stakeholders. At local, regional, national and European level the project will reach a minimum audience of 1000 recipients through the project dissemination activities.The project will use European frameworks of reference, such as EQF and ECVET, to promote new learning pathways and boost transparency, recognition and mobility in Europe. Key sectorial and Adult Education associated partners and stakeholders related with the fields of guidance, training and validation of non-formal and informal learning, involved in the project, will support the dissemination of products and mainstreaming of final results. The project will have a direct positive impact in: (i) partners and organizations involved in the project activities will improve their Skills Audit methods and tools (ii) the low qualified and disadvantaged adults will have access to better up skilling pathways to improve their skills, competencies and qualifications, opening new opportunities for training, job and mobility (iii) the Adult Education sector will count with new instruments to improve the provision of Skills Audits, adapted to different assessment contexts and to the needs of disadvantaged adults.The envisage long term impact of the project will be a strengthening of the Upskilling Pathways and the Adult Education systems in Europe.