According to forecasts of employment trends, skill requirements for jobs are increasing, whereas job opportunities for low-skilled and unskilled workers are facing a dramatic decline. Since learning has become a necessary precondition for successful employment, the concept of "self-directed learning" can be a solution for this dilemma.

A European project

Learn.Empowerment ist a LEONARDO DA VINCI project which brings together 21 partners from 11 European countries to research on this issue.

They will create "Guidelines for integration of self-directed learning into vocational education and training of low-skilled unemployed persons" and a "Tool Box" with a collection of methods directed at different target groups and attributed to this new didactic approach.

The project Learn.Empowerment lasts from October 2004 till March 2007.