In the context of transition from institutional to community based care of children, all CEE countries face the challenge of changing the institutional culture, re-training and continuing competence development of careers and foster parents who look after the children facing multiple disadvantages and being highly exposed to the risk of social inclusion. To facilitate the development of transversal (social, creative and recreational) skills of the carers and foster parents, who must be able to facilitate group living, must be excellent communicators and advocates, have to know how to access a wide range of child protection and child care legislation information, and also have to be able to create a friendly and nurturing environment by mastering the domestic skills this requires, the present project proposes the following objectives: 1. Development of professional competence of trainers of carers and foster parents by offering them training curriculum, traing materials and best practice models to be used in their daily work. 2. Development of the transversal skills of carers and foster parents by training them in fields such as: handling challenges, working with others, verbal and non-verbal communication, creative thinking, critical thinking, learning to learn, planning own work, problem-solving , etc. Besides the immanent development of project management staffs' competencies, 12 specialists (3 from each country, psychologists, social workers) will be trained in the project on how to use the Curriculum, the Training material and the Best Practice Database produced throughout the project. These specialists will than organise national pilot trainings for 40 carers and foster parents (10 persons per country). The transnational joint staff training event will facilitate not only the professional development of the participants, but will also promote transnational cooperation and collaborative learning of specialists in child protection beyond the lifetime of the project and beyond the borders of the participating countries. Main activities to accomplish the project objectives will be: 1) needs analysis of the target group resulting in a transnational report on training and continuing development needs of carers and foster parents; 2) developing a CMS based website that will host not only project information and downloadable outputs but also a best practice database; 3) elaboration of a Curriculum on Developing transversal skills of carers and foster parents; 4) Development of Training materials to support the implementation of the training course based on the curriculum. To support the dissemination and exploitation of project results a Stakeholder Analysis, and a Dissemination and Exploitation plan will be elaborated and implemented, so that the project results can have a considerable impact on the child protection systems in each country, increase the quality of social services supporting the children in foster care and facilitate transnational initiatives to promote social inclusion of disadvantaged children and youth. Two types of multiplier events will be organised to exploit and search mainstreaming possibilities of project results: 1) in three countries (Austria, Croatia, Romania) dissemination workshops will be organised where representatives of the target group, project stakeholders and policy makers will participate, 2) in the fourth project country, Hungary, a final transnational conference will be organized to promote further European cooperation on child protection issues.