Partner organizations from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania and Turkey have realized in their daily work with teachers and students at secondary schools that the need for improving existing approaches to teaching key competences is evident. In addition, the preliminary analysis showed that in time of financial crisis, schools are not willing to spend funds on "one-time" extracurricular trainings in soft competences, but are in favor of more school based and long-term approach. Nowadays European school policy is focused on teachers as the most important in-school factor affecting students` outcomes and it is strongly aimed at improving the quality of teaching by improving teacher education both in initial and continuing professional development. Stepping on their previous experience in developing soft competences training methodologies for young people at school, the partners decided to propose a new teaching methodology for secondary schools, which can be summarized as teaching transversal competences at school to improve overall students' acquisition of learning content. The methodology will be applicable to teaching process in all general school subjects and will be available in 5 languages, including English. The expected impact: • for the pupils - more attractive classes, more understandable content, better performance, greater motivation to learn, smooth transition to the labour market or further education; • for the teachers - better qualification, better motivation and confidence in facing rising learning needs of their students; • for the secondary school in general - more efficient learning process, optimization of extracurricular training costs, more effective communication and cooperation between parties. The teaching methodology offered by the current project proposal is innovative both in terms of content and format. The methodology is based on a study of training needs among employers, students and teachers and steps onto six themes: Effective communication, Cooperation, Problem solving, Entrepreneurship, Finding and managing of information and Lifelong learning. Project activities have two-way orientation in accordance with the recommendations of the ET2020 Working group on School policy : - inside - to improve collaboration between the main actors in the educational process - students, teachers, principals; - outside - to active inclusion of "external" factors in the educational process - parents, stakeholders, policy makers. This is a favorable precondition for achieving both the objectives and added value to the expected results.