Capacity building and bottom-up process in the Study Circle project

The paper analyzes how local actors’ networks implementing the SC system, that is managing organizations, local stakeholders and communities, act as a learning network. While highlighting the main elements affecting the relationship between education and development the analysis focuses on the definition of territorial system of adult education as implemented by the Study Circles project bottom-up approach. Through the pilot operations carried out in the crossborder area, the Study Circles project developed a process of “territorial capacity building” of the social capital where the strengthening of human capital goes in parallel with the development of the local system of adult education.