Arguably, the surplus of information available through a variety of devices and in multimedia formats in today's knowledge society can have an immediate positive impact on learning. Apart from basic ICT-skills, digital competence (intended primarily as the ability to retrieve information and to assess its suitability to learner’s needs) can make a difference in learning outcomes. A learner-focused approach devoted to develop, consolidate and secure transversal competences in retrieving and selecting which texts to read and/or data to analyze is the strategic element that can foster the passage between school and university, reduce drop-out rates, modify learning styles and nurture an independent way of studying through ICT in a lifelong perspective. The project aims at designing, developing and testing in 3 different European countries (Italy, Portugal, Norway) an innovative e-learning management system devoted: 1. To develop key information processing skills for ICT (literacy, numeracy and problem solving) combined with an inquiry-based approach to learning for low educational achievers aged 16-24 (Comenius, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci); 2. To produce a high level personalization of learning, which will be based on an automated computer-based assessment (CBA) and computer adaptive testing (CAT), as well as an innovative way (automated texts modulation) of delivering learning materials in order to reduce reading comprehension difficulties. The project will produce a learning content management system in 4 languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian) devoted to information-centred courses for upper-secondary school, undergraduate students and young unemployed people. The innovative educational platform will use automated adapted algorithms in order to modify learning object contents according to the learner’s lexical profile. The course will offer a full learning experience to improve learner skills for effectively retrieving specialized information on the internet.