Professionalization of the managerial and non-managerial educational staff of the social and socio-cultural centres. June 2016 – June 2018The federations and the social and socio-cultural centres of France carry out their missions in a context of changes which are difficult to anticipate, as far as the evolution of social issues (health, employment, discrimination, education...), and fragile methods of organization and citizen social mobilization are concerned.Thus, it is necessary to strengthen the methods of intervention of the employees of the social and socio-cultural centres in charge of adult education, and to bring about the evolution of their educational practices, in order that they be better placed to accompany the inhabitants' initiatives in the resolution of the social situations which concern them.This consortium is composed of the National Federation of Social and socio-cultural Centres of France, the federations of the Ardennes, the Drôme, the Val d'Oise, the Seine Saint Denis, the Pyrénées Atlantiques, and the Vienne. It has decided to send management and non-management educational personnel from each federation on courses abroad, in order to observe and study a range of practices and teachings, with a view to their propagation in the medium term, throughout the national network.Six observation courses are scheduled, localized in reputed practices in the heart of five European organisations : Locality - LONDRES , NUZS in der ufafabrik e.V. BERLIN, Federació d'Associacions de Veïns -LERIDA, Fritidsforum – STOCKHOM, PEC Wallonie - LIEGE. 72 participants are involved;The members of the consortium have identified, within the activities of its international partners, the main problems which have to be observed; which, in the short and medium term, will allow the federations to develop their training programmes on offer to voluntary and salaried workers in their member centres. And, consequently, to improve their responses to the needs of the local populations. This training project is an integral part of the plan for continual training of the consortium’s partner federations, and will allow the professional development of their employees engaged in adult education.It will allow us to experiment and validate new methods of non-formal education in the service of our network's new policy of international learning.In terms of impact, we expect a change in attitude and method concerning the management and non-management educational staff, which will have an effect on their work with local inhabitants thanks to a better consideration of their potential, a recognition of their know-how and an increased possibility for expressing themselves in the public arena.This project should also allow us to launch a new phase of European and international cooperation concerning the professionalization of the educational staffs of associations and European federations, members of the IFS- International Federation of Settlements- and the International Federation of Social and socio-cultural Centres.