Context and objectives of the project: Intercultural competences are crucially needed in our globalised world because of the increasing diversity and the pressing global challenges we face in our societies. For example, due to the sudden flow of asylum seekers to Europe there is an urgent need in the adult education sector to learn new ways and methods of how to teach newcomers in intercultural settings.This project aims at promoting intercultural learning by developing arts-based and action-oriented methods and by producing new, high quality material for intercultural teaching and learning. Moreover, the project’s objective is to enhance educators’ capacities to shape intercultural awareness and teach intercultural competences in culturally diverse settings.Participants and methodology: During the project, we create, test, teach and evaluate a variety of methods in the six adult education institutions in Finland, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Italy, Romania and Poland. Each partner will be piloting different arts-based and action-oriented methods in their local groups. These pilot groups will be culturally diverse and there will be learners from a variety of backgrounds. For example, participants include deaf people, people with disabilities, refugees and people with different socio-economic backgrounds. As intercultural competences consist not only of knowledge but also skills and attitudes such as empathy and active listening, learning beyond the book is vital. That is why we are exploring how different kinds of arts-based and action-oriented methods can be effectively applied in multicultural settings. By combining creative practices with theories on intercultural competences, we develop new insights on how to create spaces for intercultural learning.Results, impacts and long term benefits:The project results will bring a lot of innovative approaches to the choice of the methods for intercultural learning activities. The main output is a digital guidebook which contains all the materials developed through the project. The book provides new theoretical approaches on intercultural teaching and learning as well as practical methodological tools for educators. Moreover, the e-book is interactive and includes game-like elements and learning via social media. It also introduces an innovative reflection method to be applied by the educators.The results of the project will be available for not only the participants of the project but for all who are interested of intercultural learning and ways of promoting it. The online guidebook will be open for everyone and easily accessed since it is published in a digital format. For example, the book may be benefitted by all kinds of educators, facilitators, instructors, social workers, community pedagogues and youth workers. In addition to the adult education field, the project results are useful for other sectors working with culturally diverse groups, such as NGOs and cultural organisations. The guidebook will be updated and moderated at least three years after the end of the project funding period. Investing in educators’ capacity building yields long term benefits because they play an in important role in fostering enlightened, creative and interculturally competent global citizens. The project brings new perspectives to actual and important themes, as intercultural competence is a prerequisite for community dialogue, civic engagement and inclusion, community building, problem solving, celebrating diversity and finding common ground.