Development of STEAM skills, as mostly related to highly-qualified jobs, is a major priority across formal and non-formal
education sectors in all European countries and beyond. However, an emerging offer of technological education is still of
limited availability for adults, especially those with fewer opportunities due to economic, social, geographical or migrant
background obstacles. Local community learning centers can fill in this gap as they have already established themselves
as non-formal digital education providers. In the needs analysis that we carried out in the project initiation stage, we
observed that local learning centers face skill-related challenges, when it comes to providing technological education to
adult learners: a) lack of relevant skills (technological and andragogical) among educators; b) lack of skills, motivation
and confidence among adults to enroll to a technological activity/workshop/training course.