Creative businesses, which have shown strong resistance to the crisis, represent around 3.5% of all products and services made in the EU each year and employ 6.7 million people, i.e. 3% of the European workforce. Creative businesses have demonstrated to have an important role to play in generating growth and occupation and fighting unemployment while strengthening social cohesion, particularly for young people, but also for those adults who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, who can transform their creative skills into their own business. In order to help the creative sector unlock their potential for growth and the transnational circulation of creative works and their ability to operate transnationally and reach new audiences in Europe and beyond, the EU responded with the Programme “Creative Europe”, considering the lack of efforts in providing aspiring and practicing creative people with knowledge and skills that increase their capacity to create and lead their creative entrepreneurial ventures. The general aim of the “Creative Talent factory” - CTF project is to promote self-employment and entrepreneurship in the creative sector. To achieve this goal, the CTF project has defined four objectives:•to provide digital learning opportunities for adults, including with disadvantaged background, supporting their motivation and empowering them towards access to upskilling pathways for creative entrepreneurship;•to assess and monitor learners’ achievements in order to ensure the transparency and recognition of their creative entrepreneurial competences and skills;•to provide the innovative easy-to-learn pathway for upskilling the creative entrepreneurial competences and skills needed to set up or improve the creative business;•to extend and develop educators’ competences needed for effective running the training of adult learners, including with the disadvantaged background, to become the successful creative entrepreneurs.The components of the creative sector included in the CTF project are visual and performing arts; craftsmanship; art and antiques market; fashion; music and dancing. 90 adults - learners seeking to set their own businesses or improve it in the creative sector, including adult from disadvantaged background and 30 adult educators-facilitators will participate directly in the projects piloting activities. 135 representatives of associated partners and other the stakeholders will participate in six multiplying events. In order to achieve the defined objectives, four intellectual outputs will be produced: For adult learners: •Set of OERs “Creative Entrepreneurial motivation and empowerment”;•Self-assessment Tool to assess the competences and skills of the creative entrepreneur;•E-training programme “Creative Talent Factory“;For adult educators: •E-toolkit for Adult educators “How to run “Creative Talent Factory“”.The general methodology to all four intellectual outputs is based on Open Educational Resources in order to promote the open access to developed educational tools. However, each outcome is based on the specific to this outcome methodology, including reversed training methodology with the flipped classroom learning approach; innovative concept for the training course based on easy-to-learn Bite-size Learning methodology, assessing of the competencies and skills method with providing learners with the digital badge “Creative entrepreneur”. The attractive and learner-friendly methodical approach, based on Creative Entrepreneurial Local Workshop as an innovative upskilling pathway, includes organic using of all three intellectual outputs, developed for adult learners for motivating, empowering, training and assessing their creative entrepreneurial competences and skills. The positive impact of this new upskilling pathway is expected on the participatory approach by increasing learners’ involvement to the training on creative entrepreneurship. Thus, the project contributes to achieve benchmark of 15% of learners’ participation in lifelong learning as defined in European agenda for adult learning. The impact is expected on development of competences and skills on creative entrepreneurship: 85% of learners will increase their creative entrepreneurial competencies and skills for at least 40% after the finalising the training course, and the measure of this impact will be ensured by the assessment tool. It is also expected that at least 60% of learners will show their immediate interest to develop the Action plans for establishing the creative business. The general impact is foreseen on better integration of this target group to the labour market and society, and it will contribute to the achievement of ET 2020 benchmark of increasing employment rate by 75%.