Aims and objectives of PIP are:

• To identify suitable people from within each partner to train as Peer Educators. It is expected in most cases that these people will already have been trained and worked as Mentors.
• To identify within the Personal Development programme those elements which could be most successfully delivered by Peer Educators.
• To research into the skills needed by Peer Educators in order to fulfil the role.
• To develop a Peer Education training programme taking into account the flexibility needed to work with a wide range of beneficiaries.
• To pilot the Peer Education training programme through a residential 5 day course for all Peer Educators from all partners.
• To match Peer Educators in each partner country with the identified beneficiaries from the target groups of disability, learning disability, disadvantage, refugees and immigrants.
• To pilot the use of Peer Educators to support new entrants to education, training or work placements who currently do not have access to such placements.
• To compare the use of both Mentors and Peer Educators against the support of Mentors alone to support those most disadvantaged in training and the labour market.