According to ISCED, educational attainment is the visible output of education systems and a measure of their success. For individuals, achievement levels have a major impact, both personally and professionally, on the quality of life and job opportunities while EUROSTAT data concerning educational attainment of the age group 55-74 are unfavourable: low educational attainment 37.4%, medium educational attainment 42.6%, high educational attainment 20.0 % (EUROSTAT, Statistical data on educational attainment, 2015) which is far from the level projected by the Lisbon Treaty. A great number of adults with low educational attainment are people aged over 45 that need to be attracted to remain in adult education in order to improve their skills and competences and, thus, be (re)included in the labour market. A key role in this process play adult educators, a target group of this project. While most of them are rather versatile dealing with students with higher levels of education attainment, they sometimes don't know what to expect and how to proceed when they have low literates as students. Adult educators and various practitioners may not be familiar with the phenomenon of low literacy, characteristics of low literate and low educated students (functional illiteracy) and how low educated learners learn. They may lack knowledge and skills about motivation and motivating strategies etc. They might not know how to gain their students confidence. If low educated students become more confident, they forget about their aversion towards changes and can stay in education and keep their job. The project seeks to contribute to empowerment of adult educators with the knowledge and skills necessary for a greater involvement of older people into lifelong education through effective outreach, guidance and motivation. To do this, different motivational strategies and technique will be offered to adult educators who test them in their adult education centres in the partner countries. In order to have these materials available for an international audience, there will be created an open educational platform with interactive resources for adult educators and other practitioners, which includes: national literature on literacy/ motivation/ learning and teaching strategies in partner languages; best practices in the field of teaching of basic skills to adult learners; an online interactive handbook of existing motivational strategies used by adult educators working with low-educated adult learners. The ultimate goal of the project is to elaborate an online learning environment to extend professional competences of adult educators based on learning and teaching strategies: knowledge, approaches, face-to-face and on-line methods and formats (webinars), techniques helping adult educators to train low educated 45+ workers as well as trigger and maintain their primary motivation for learning. The partners expect to have the following results on project completion: 1) benchmarking report on the state of the art of adult educators in EU countries prepared and available on the project website; 2) a user-friendly interactive platform containing pedagogical resources for adult educators created; 3) online interactive handbook of motivational strategies for adult educators working with low-educated learners elaborated; 4) the courses for adult educators developed; 5) 12 adult educators participated in a face-to-face training activity organised in Ljubliana in June 2019; 6) 60 adult educators from partner countries took part in the piloting of the online course; 7) Open Educational Pack for adult educators developed in English and partner languages; 8) 4 transnational meetings organised (1TM - Dec 2017 in Slovenia; 2TM – July 2018 in Italy; 3TM- March 2019 in Cyprus; 4TM – Dec 2019 in Spain); 9) 3 dissemination conferences organised in Zalec (20 local participants), Ljubliana (20 local and 10 international participants) and Nicosia (20 local and 10 international participants) in December 2019. The project will also foster and provide grounds for highly professional national and cross-border cooperation in the field of professional competences of adult educators and learning/education in later life.