Aims and objectives

• The project seeks to built partnerships between the participating countries and within the single countries to develop and implement new forms of communication and learning between Muslim and Non-Muslim people. The participating countries will have a platform for exchange of experiences and findings and experiences within the project are intended to be disseminated within every country through existing or new networks.
• The project intends to analyse and integrate the most broad range of aspects, ideas and experience by establishing a continued, intensive dialogue between participating institutions from scientific fields, fields of adult learning and the integration of Muslim and Non-Muslim people in the process. We consider this to be an integral part of the project in order to refer to the plural and complex topic. This is reflected by the choice of partner organizations, which all have either a dedicated scientific focus or are working in adult education with long experience.
• The project aims to identify ‚best practice' in adult learning in the participating countries and to develop new approaches, methods and materials to be used in the field of adult learning. The case studies in every participating country will provide a deep insight into actual problems and different useful approaches and methods in adult learning.
• It seeks to develop transnational guidelines which will be adopted to the countries needs but can also serve as orientation for other contexts. Based on the case studies results, the partners will discuss and develop transnational guidelines. They serve as common orientation which will be adopted to the situation and the needs of every country within the project ('handbook for adult educators')but which will also be publishes on the website and can therefore serve as suggestion for other contexts.
• It further aims to train adult educators within the participating countries, to pilote the new material and evaluate the developed approaches and methods.
• The project intends to provide useful and actual information and recommendations for adult educators to support the process of mutual and differentiated understanding between Muslim and Non-Muslim people in various learning contexts.

Contributing to mutual understanding and combatting prejudice between Muslims and Non-Muslims must be seen as a plural and fluent process. Although in the field of adult education there has been a lot of work done in the partner countries dealing with the special issue of ‚Muslim / Non-Muslim relations' it must also be seen as part of a plural and fluent situation to get experts together, integrate Muslim and Non-Muslim people and to discuss these experiences and compile and pilote useful approaches, methods and materials for adult learning in a new and innovative way.

Through the project, there is the opportunity in every country to initiate an intensive dialogue and the training and piloting of innovative approaches and methods in adult learning. The specific experiences are summarized and commonly analysed and placed in a European context which can be adopted to various situations.

The case studies and the involvement of experts, experienced adult educators and 'people from outside' provide a focused and experience-based needs analysis which is crucial for the compilation of new and innovative approaches and methods in adult education. The training of adult educators guarantees a professional piloting and the evaluation phase provides dedicated feedback out of practice. The impact of the project lies on the one hand on a fruitful international exchange and on the other hand on the testing and innovative enrichment of previous concepts.