Access to adult learning in rural or remote areas is often limited and following training courses cannot be easily integrated into daily life. The project LANDWORKER aimed at creating “citizen schools”, neighbourhood and community oriented adult education centres in rural communities. Besides clearing space for learning, e.g. in former school houses or other abandoned public buildings, the project partners also analysed the specific qualification needs of people in rural areas and developed a specific adult education syllabus for their communities. During the project, all partners managed to set up their citizen school, which is supposed to provide teaching, information and project work. Citizen Schools are not only a place to learn in the traditional sense of the word; they are intended to become the “centre of the village” next to the town hall. The key person of these newly established schools was right from the beginning the so-called Landworker. He or she was involved in the set-up of the citizen school and was then subsequently responsible for coordinating its activities. Typically the landworkers selected by the project partners have a strong pedagogical background, but are also fully integrated in the local social life. First activities of the new adult education organisations have been the identification of training needs and testing of courses, Agenda 21 work, the implementation of ICT and language courses and the set up of local support networks. The partnership produced a “Guide for Experts” which provides essential information on how to create a citizen school, reports on experiences gained in the project and describes the example of each partner. The Guide can be downloaded from the project’s website.