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The project develops a specific regional approach to the problems described above and the challenges they constitute for the systems of lifelong learning. The project pursues the following main objectives:

1) Regional Development

The Austrian region „Aichfeld Murboden“ as well as the partner regions in the respective partner countries are – especially in times of economic crisis -in need of new and sustained impetus regional development to secure jobs and factories. By developing a strategy that is relevant to the region and has been coordinated between the key players in the economy and lifelong learning, the WiSaR Project makes an important contribution towards securing the area’s attraction for business, and towards sustainable development of the region “Aichfeld Murboden” as well as the individual partner regions.

2) Regional LLL strategy development

As there are huge local differences in economic structures and requirements, national LLL strategies are not sufficiently relevant, and there is a clear demand for adjusted and regionally relevant LLL strategies for the respective regions. Proceeding from the individual countries’ national LLL strategies, WiSaR will initiate the development of regional educational strategies, provide the relevant methods and have them embedded in the region by the policy-makers and decision-makers in education.

3) Methods development

Against the background of the regional LLL strategy, individual methods will be developed in order to match offer and demand as well as underlying competence requirements and to integrate them into the available education and training programmes (formal and non-formal).

4) Networking

The WiSaR project aims at creating a development network among the regions involved in order to use potential synergies and share ideas. This network serves to interconnect regions which work on developing and embedding economy-oriented strategies for lifelong learning.

5) Sustainability

It is a major objective of the WiSaR project to embed and further develop the LLL strategy, which includes the developed methodology. Appropriate approaches will be developed for this strategy to be embedded in the region and be exploited by the relevant actors (educational institutions, political decision-makers, enterprises, NGOs, providers of non-formal ways of learning and/or informal learning). Ensuring long-term exploitation of the strategy is a step towards reaching the overall objectives.