Changes in the activity of the adult educators

This article aims at analyzing the influence of the specificity of the practices of recognition, validation and certification of non formal and informal learning on the functions and knowledge of the adult educators, work with adult low school education levels. From a theoretical point of view, we have based our research on the issues of adult education, experiential learning, and evaluation. Apart from an analysis of the functions and knowledge required to the trainers who work in the teams of the studied centres of recognition, validation and certification of non formal and informal learning we are going to examine the issues which they are confronted to in their professional practices.