Pilots – Professionalisation in Learning Technology and Science is a two-year project with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union, which started in November 2008.

Download the project presentation here.

Pilots follows two principal lines of action:

1. the collection of data on European practices concerning explainers;
2. the planning and testing of training modules to enhance the role of explainers in lifelong learning in science, with particular attention to the new needs of explainers in response to the requirements of adult learners: facilitating dialogue and discussion, tackling controversial and sensitive issues, taking into account gender differences and presenting current research.

Four European courses on these topics are being organised during the two-year project.

A web-platform, Pilots Hub, supports the explainers’ learning community.

The project aims to contribute substantially to the updating of explainers modes of interactions with adults in informal learning settings at a European level, but also to involve the partner institutions and the larger community of European explainers extensively.