The COOL project aims to

• Empower disadvantaged groups to become social innovators by activating them and by enhancing their key competences
• Create open spaces for learning and development for these target groups 
• Create a methodology to facilitate open learning in three modalities: real life, digital space, and in open mobility learning projects 
• Train and qualify adult education professionals as “Learning and Development Facilitators” and enable them to 
  • create and curate open learning spaces
  • plan and implement design thinking and creativity techniques in learning projects and 
  • develop agile and creative project development and management skills 
  • facilitate collaborative design-based learning

Target Groups

• Disadvantaged learners in the European adult education sector 
• Trainers and other educational staff involved in different types of educational activities and courses for disadvantaged learners