The project intends to improve the access to vocational training and the lifelong acquisition of skills, with a view to increasing and developing adaptability and chances for unemployed older and disabled people. This will be achieved by application of innovative counselling and guidance approaches and the establishment of a mentoring scheme linking older unemployed people to employers. This scheme will be useful to assess competences and to improve employability chances. The access to workplaces and employers (through mentoring schemes and employers’ networks) will provide older people long-term excluded from the labour market with self-confidence, empowerment and employability skills. The project will produce paper based manuals, guidance, mentoring systems, materials and networks, and will be piloted in 4 participating countries.