The PEGASE project meets the training needs of staff who must address the psycho-social aspects of the difficulties encountered by workers or the unemployed. This staff includes social workers and carers in general. The project reinforces their aptitudes and skills in the field of mental health. The project will produce distance training programmes (EN, FR, EL, PT) available on the Internet and CD-ROM (same languages + RO). Four regional centres equipped with technological, pedagogic and management resources in B, EL, P, RO will be responsible for implementing these programmes.The project will have a decisive impact on the socio-professional and civil integration of persons with mental health problems.Six regional dissemination and study units are in place in A, B, EL, P, RO, and UK whose task is to disseminate the training programmes in the EU and in the countries of central and South Eastern Europe. The commercial potential of these programmes will also be studied.