Despite the vigorous development of andragogy methodology, there is still a lack of research tools typical for this field. Andragogy uses tools from related fields, mainly from psychology. Such a solution is not satisfactory firstly because many tools have limited access, and secondly, they are not specific to andragogic issues. There are no tools that can be used to study the needs of adult education organisations and the educational needs of their employees. Such tools, on the other hand, would significantly improve the education process and indicate the directions of development of this type of organisation. The aim of the present project is firstly: to identify such needs and secondly: to develop tools that can be used by other researchers. What is important, the fact that the research will be conducted in different countries, not only in the consortium countries, guarantees the obtained results will be symptomatic for European AE sector. The analysis of the results will focus both on the identification of the needs of the organisation and staff and on the comparison of these needs in the different countries and in the different types of adult education institutions. In addition, correlations between the reported needs of institutions and the needs of staff will be analysed.