The role of regional governments in promoting integrated lifelong learning policies has been recognised as very important since many years and many studies and initiatives have been undertaken to conceptualise and review good practices and policy arrangements (such as CEDEFOP, OECD, German Learning region Programme, RELL project, LLHUB project and others). However, the policy context has not always been favourable to a comprehensive lifelong learning approach (not merely focused on professional development of employed workers), nor to enhance the role of Regions in the broad education field. This dichotomy between discourse and praxis has generated a fragmentary situation, in which some regions across Europe continue to be seriously committed to lifelong learning but, lacking continuing and reliable financial and political support, are unable to undertake sustainable exchange of experience among them and to systematically compare their progresses and learn from each other.The present proposal aims to design an open collaborative platform to enhance and compare Regional Lifelong Learning Policies: the COMORELP Policy Lab Platform, capitalising the results of previous initiatives and EU Projects, developing a coherent conceptual and operational framework. These results will be achieved with a strict focus on building the sustainability conditions for the monitoring exercise, thus overcoming the fragmented situation described above. The concrete objectives of the project are the following:· To organise a longitudinal review of LLL policies in each participating region, including a multi-stakeholders self-assessment exercise;· To review and synthesise existing contributions on regional lifelong learning and “Learning Regions” approaches to develop a new context-sensitive comparison/benchmarking platform;· To pilot a data collection approach to feed and validate the system among the pilot Partner Regions· To organise regional and European inter-regional Round Table to exchange and reflect upon practices in the field of Lifelong Learning and lay the foundations for inter-regional cooperation and common LLL policies· To promote the participation in the COMORELP Policy Lab Platform of new Regions and to develop a sustainability action plan.· To draw lessons from the process, both in terms of quality assurance and in terms of policy recommendations.The project will create the opportunity, for Regional Governments who are committed to Lifelong Learning, the opportunity to review, compare and enhance their policies through the systematic collaboration with other Regions and the establishment of a mutual learning process involving stakeholders and national/EU policy-makers, thus contributing to a renewed dialogue on lifelong learning at the EU level, also in relation with the first point of the recently agreed European Pillar of Social Rights. The expected results and impact envisaged and potential longer term benefits such as increasing participant awareness on the Lifelong Learning policies upon regional bases and make comparisons to rebuild or reorganize their own policies by detecting deficiencies or gaining alternative perspective from other contributors such as stakeholders, other regions or policy makers. Existing data collected on the platform will be the starting point for further evolvements and extensions by the participants. The COMORELP Policy Lab Platform aimed to evolve after the end of the project and build a broader community of users, coming from all other European and Third countries, stakeholders and regional bodies not originaly involved in the project.