M-LEARN project focuses on innovative use of mentoring for social change and life-long learning. It will allow adult educators, teachers, tutors, mentors and entrepreneurs from 6 different countries to exchange good practices ranging from using mentoring for community development and social inclusion of vulnerable groups through mentoring youth and social entrepreneurs, to CSR-based mentoring and involving 50+ professionals in mentoring activities. In this way, the 6 partners from Réunion Island/France, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia want to answer to the continuous need of adult educators and training providers to improve their competences and to apply new tools and innovative approaches, so as to meet the increasing expectations of nowadays learners. The overall objective of our project is to improve competences of adult educators, trainers, tutors, mentors and business and social entrepreneurs in the areas of motivational literacy and effective use of innovative lifelong learning solutions. In this way, we want to help them create unique and tailor-made educational experiences for their learners. The specific objectives are:1.Developing the capacity of mentors and adult educators from 6 partners countries by exchange of best practices in the fields of mentoring jobseekers and early school leavers, intergenerational knowledge sharing, online and blended learning mentoring, youth entrepreneurship and mentoring volunteers / CSR-driven mentoring; 2.Improving mentoring skills and competences of non-formal and informal adult educators, training professionals and mentors from 6 partner countries to support adult learners, including low-skilled and low-qualified people, vulnerable social groups, migrants, NEETs, etc, to go back to the labour market or to start their own business initiatives, by developing a Best Practice Guide, summarizing the exchanged practices;3.Creating a network of professionals in the field of formal, non-formal and informal education, who are familiar with or interested in using mentoring for social change and life-long learning; 4.Promoting cross-sector and transnational cooperation and exchange of experience, best practices and lesson learned between partner countries, and educational and training centres from non-formal and informal education.Our direct target groups are: 1) Project partners – formal and non-formal training providers, NGOs, umbrella organisations, etc; 2) Educators (teachers, trainers, tutors) in the field of formal, non-formal and informal adult education. In addition, we will indirectly support: 1) Education providers, which want to enlarge their scope of work by including mentoring among their training activities and services; 2) Small and micro-sized business and social entrepreneurs, who want to enrich their mentoring practices; 3) Adult learners, including low-skilled and low-qualified people, vulnerable social groups, migrants, NEETs, etc, who want to go back to the labour market or to start their own business.Our activities include: A) Organisation of 6 three-day long LTTAs on: 1) Mentoring jobseekers and early school leavers; 2) Motivating (ex) entrepreneurs 50+ to enrol in mentor trainings and to become mentors to target group of NEETs (intergenerational exchange of knowledge); 3) Youth Entrepreneurship mentoring programme; 4) Mentoring for social inclusion of vulnerable people / community development mentors / online mentoring; 5) Mentoring Volunteers / CSR-driven mentoring; 6) Professional mentoring for social business start-ups and social enterprises using blended learning methodologies. 3 participants from each country will take part in each training – 2 representatives of the partner organisation and 1 – from a stakeholder/associate partner/other related organisation; B) Development of a Best Practice Guide, in which we will summarise the shared practices. It will be in English and in all partner languages and will be freely available on the project website; C) Dissemination and multiplication activities, including multiplayer events organised by participants after each LTTA, local dissemination events in each partner country, etc. The expected impact is: 1) to introduce educators, mentors and entrepreneurs to 6 innovative mentoring practices; 2) to increase their competence how to use mentoring for supporting social inclusion of vulnerable groups, including jobseekers, early school leavers, NEETs and minorities; 3) to enrich their knowledge and skills how to apply online and blended learning mentoring tools in formal, non-formal and informal adult education; 4) to improve their knowledge how to provide community developed mentoring and to use it for intergenerational and life-long learning; 5) to promote cross-sector and transnational cooperation and exchange of experience, best practices and lesson learned between partner countries, and educational and training centres from non-formal and informal education.