As modern societies and economies are changing due to, amongst others, globalisation and technological progress, they rely heavily on highly educated and competent people. Key competences for personal development, employability, active citizenship and social inclusion for growth, employment and participation in society is a crucial theme of the European Education Area. Rural areas as an opportunity for the development of basic skills and key competences is a constituent part of European agenda for the implementation of the Education and Training 2020 strategic framework in the field of adult education. Its contents refer to several priority fields of the renewed EU Agenda for Adult Learning with special emphasis on providing opportunities for adults to develop all forms of basic skills and key competences, intensifying intergenerational cooperation and partnerships at local level, in this particular case in a rural area.The Legends project seeks to develop and implement a methodology for obtaining key compences by exploring intagible heritage - traditional myths and legends in Europe. It addresses adults in rural and remote areas to involve learners with geographical, economic and cultural barriers for learning. The project offers a completely innovative methods and contents by bridging traditional myths and legends with adults’ key competence development. There is striking interest in the myths and legends today thans to their influences in the contemporary culture. E.g. references to Norse mythology became common in science fiction and fantasy literature, role-playing games, and eventually other cultural products such as Japanese manga and the Marvel universe. Over the last 12 or so years, bestselling children’s and young adult authors Joanne Harris and Francesca Simon have written novels with Norse mythic themes. Even Game of Thrones’ icy world beyond the Wall, with its Three-Eyed Raven and White Walkers, riffs on Odin and the frost-giants.In the Legends project the cultural and European heritage linked to myths and legends will take shape in learning material and will continue to express their values through the process of contextualization of the messages inherent in each reading with the specific learning themes with which each legend will have a particular harmony. There are four main archetypes or models of simple story form, that will be refered within the project methodology to key competences:•Heroes and legends – stories about heroic actions. These stories are the heart of mythology through which important cultural values and practices are passed on. Concerned key competence: Active citizenship •Making discoveries – stories of the process that led to an important discovery. These stories guide others toward making their own discoveries or inventing new or better ways of doing things. Concerned key competence: Entrepreneurship•Personal change – tales about self-discovery and personal revelations. These stories are particularly helpful when teaching about how our actions have an impact on others. Concerned key competence: Interpersonal skills, and the ability to adopt new competences•Lessons learned – stories that describe failures and successes, allowing others to avoid mistakes or reach a successful outcome. Concerned key competence: Cultural awareness and expressionThe overall aim of the project is to develop adult learners’ relevant 21st century skills (active citizenship, entrepreneurship, interpersonal skills, and the ability to adopt new competences, cultural awareness and expression, digital and technology-based competences) and foster the learners’ knowledge of the rich European cultural heritage and its values by applying innovative learning approaches and materials consequently improving people’s education level and bringing them closer to cultural heritage, history and the common values of Europe, enhancing their overall development and employability.Legends specific objectives focus on:•Exploring European cultural heritage, such as myths and legends, and their contextualization as cultural and behavioral models to support the learning process and key competence development•Designing and testing a training program for key competence development•Developing “Legend of today” - a story-based digital interactive educational product based on gamification approach with materials and tools to gain core competences and life skills, and to develop learners digital and technology-based competences.Legends project builds its methodology on experiences of 5 partner organisations in adult education and training, and creativity and digitalization of education, and will produce and disseminate at EU level intellectual outputs that will significantly contribute to the innovation of the adult sector in partner countries and beyond.