“Tinkering: Contemporary Education for the Innovators of tomorrow” emerged from the need for citizens able to respond to the contemporary global challenges by being competent in science and technology, self-confident and critical thinkers, socially-engaged, with innovative and entrepreneurial attitude. It responded to these needs through a learner-centred approach aiming at education in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and at the development of the 21st century skills. The specific learner-centred approach is Tinkering adopted in a series of activities and tools and disseminated at European level.‘Tinkering’ is the term used to define an innovative pedagogy that reflects the current trends in education and the Maker culture. It promotes individuals’ active engagement with science- and making-oriented activities as ways to relate with, and understand of, the surrounding world. It promotes skills that can be used in different contexts and become useful for a lifetime. Tinkering, as both pedagogy and activities, was initially developed by the Exploratorium of San Francisco, and today is gaining ground internationally.The objectives of the project were to:¥enrich skills with specific reference to STEM¥develop the 21st century (transversal) skills: creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship¥promote a learner-centred pedagogical approach¥improve the attractivity of, attainment in, and lifelong relationship with, science and technology for adults and students¥implement the innovative pedagogy of Tinkering in school and out-of-school contexts at European level and create a Europe-wide community of practice of institutions¥encourage cooperation and exchange of expertise and practice between formal and informal learning institutions and professionals.The main activities developed by the project were:¥Design of new Tinkering activities for adult learners and for schools¥Definition of a methodological framework for Tinkering as a founding element of the work¥Developemnt of pedagogical materials focusing on the methodology of Tinkering and on professional development, aiming to help pactitioners adopt Tinkering in their practice ¥Organization of training for adult and school educators, aimed at creating the conditions for the implementation of the pedagogy and the activities¥Organisation of multiplier events for the wide implementation of the activities¥Dissemination at local, national and European level¥Management and monitoring of cooperation and operations.The project was carried out through cooperation between formal and informal learning institutions and addressed adult and school learners as well as adult and school educators. Partners worked on the different activities on the basis of a plan consisting of phases of development, pilot testing, evaluation and fine-tuning in order to come up with outputs that are both sustainable and transferable. Results¥New Tinkering activities for adult learners and schools designed, fully described and available online¥Sustainable and transferable pedagogical materials focusing on the methodological framework for Tinkering and on guidelines for professional development of educators adopting Tinkering available online¥Training events for adult and school educators, including a training workshop by the Exploratorium¥Multiplier events for the wide implementation of the activities¥Website containing all resources, which remains active after the end of the project¥A European community of practice working with this pedagogy.The project reached 27.213 individuals through the multiplier events and about 450 professionals with the training and also achieved:¥Enriched educational practice in school and out-of-school environments¥Improvement of the facilitation role for educators involved in STEM-oriented experience in formal and informal education¥Increasing consideration of the innovative pedagogy of Tinkering at policy level for curriculum and lifelong education¥Better understanding of the conditions fostering the involvement and motivation of early school leavers¥A reinforcement of skills relating to the job market¥The sensibilization of directly-interested target groups and stakeholders at local, national and European level.The structure of the project encouraged the creation of networks with institutions and individuals at local level, who benefited by the activities and resources. These participated to the events and programmes but their involvement goes beyond the specific participation. They were able to understand the potential of Tinkering in different contexts, therefore we saw an increasing interest to find out more about how Tinkering can be adopted in a range of contexts. At European level, there is a concrete interest of several science museums to be trained in Tinkering in order to adopt the approach and activities in their practice.