The project “Competence Coach” is meant to make an important contribution to improving the quality of coaching in vocational education and the professional performance of advisors and coaches, in particular with regard to methods coaches can use for analysing their clients’ competences. Special attention was paid to the target group of people at risk of social exclusion. Both aspects were accounted for during the work on the curriculum and the training manual for the modular training course named “Competence Coach” for coaches and advisors in vocational education. They are also manifested in the results of the project. The project is based on the LdV projects “exemplo” and “Third Age Guidance”. One of the “exemplo” project partners from Germany also participated in “Competence Coach” and transferred the results of the previous project to the new target groups and their needs. The other partners are from DE, FR, IT, EL, LT, GB and CZ; the focus of their work is on career planning and counselling.Certification in the participating partner countries is envisaged and has been realised in Germany and Lithuania so far. In all partner countries the contents of the “Competence Coach” training course were tested in practice, i.e. tools, methods etc. were trialled by coaches and advisors. The respective feedback was included in the final version of the training course.