Overall objective of the project is to create preconditions for effective and informal educational framework of the South-East Finland and North-West Russia. The main objective is aimed by enhancing contribution of distance vocational education in solving economic and social problems of the Programme area; by introducing both in Russia and in Finland new up-to-date forms and techniques of vocational education providing accessibility and equality of education regardless of place of residence, gender, age or financial status; by creating an expanding cross-border Network of vocational education institutions.