Mental ill health is a major concern for European governments and their citizens due to its high prevalence, and the high personal and public costs of the social exclusion of people with the lived experience of mental illness. Recovery in its new meaning of enabling people to live well with the illness and beyond it, is becoming the European preferred policy. The focus on leadership in the proposed Masters is aimed at enabling innovation to be more facilitated in the workplace than is currently the case. The project will demonstrate social inclusion and focus on the strengths of service users and their informal carers by systematically involving representatives from these stakeholder groups in developing the Masters in Recovery and social inclusion.The main output will be a joint European , largely online, modular Masters programme. The programme will follow lifelong learning as a core strategy applied to achieving recovery by enhancing new learning and some unlearning of old attitudes, introducing a new educational focus on social inclusion in the context of recovery and on leadership of recovery oriented services, and a pedagogical innovation by engaging non traditional groups in preparing the programme and teaching in it. The delivery through an extensive use of the Elluminate platform simulating real life teaching and learning online in the English language, and the Second Life programme, coupled with both online and face to face tutorials follows the Lifelong Learning Strategy of Education and Training 2010 and in the ET 2020 frameworks, as well as the Bologna agreement on harmonisation of higher education.. Key modules of the programme will include recovery leadership, research, and the application of skills learned on the course to everyday practice.This innovative programme will establish a new European model for future higher education programmes in this field, as well as a template for recovery and social inclusion oriented leadership.