Vocational education institutions working in jewellery and design areas face several problems in their work. One of them - transfering the modern design technologies into teaching programs. The other – there is a lack of opportunities to offer apprenticeship places for students finishing their training programs. This situation is due to the shortage of fine craft and design manufacturing companies in Lithuania. This sector represents an individual business which is sufficiently closed with a very strong competition. To survive in this competitive environment can only craftsmen who have a high level of mastery and artisans who create original works. Project goal is to enable teachers and school students to familiarize with the experience of two different EU countries' experience. Also acquire skills in the field of jewelery manufacturing and learn the interior design techniques witch are popular in these countries. Participants: -16 IVET students of the last year. Eight from them are jewellers and eight of them are interior decorators. During the Project, they will be already completed all the required theoretical and practical courses in their specialty and already served part of the apprenticeship in Lithuanian companies. -3 Fine metal hardware training program trainers who are individuals with at least 3 years of experience in fine metal hardware manufacturers practical and theoretical training. Project activities (methodology). Students will go to Malta and Portugal in the two streams where they will have to make placements in enterprises for 4 weeks. ( April-May, 2015). With the first flow 4 Jewellers and 4 interior decorators will go. They will have work placements of 160 hours that will be included in the total practice period. The students will be working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Students visits goal is to provide students with new professional skills, to get experience how to organize work, to improve their communication skills, To improve communication skills in English, to familiarize with the new design technologies. Project will give a possibility for students to complete their apprenticeship in foreign companies. This will broaden the horizons of the participants in the area of their profesion and give the important skills for their further career development. Teachers will acquire new professional skills in filigree technique when working with silver. School work only with semi-precious metals, so it will be a new experience for teachers. During one-week visit in Malta, the jewelry profession teachers will have the opportunity to observe the work of jewelers in Ta 'Qali crafts village. Teachers will be able to compare their tarining program with ours. They will get acquaint with the latest technologies of filigree, will monitor and analyze the latest trends in jewelry design articles Professional qualifications of teachers were developed only in Lithuania, so there is a need to send them to a learning visit so that the teachers could bring back new ideas for fine metal ware manufacturer curriculum change. For the Project management, implementation and maintenance a working group will be created. It will consist of the Project Manager, the Project coordinator, the English teacher, the Head of the Handicraft production department, the Accountant. Accompanying person will be the trainer. The project working group will be led by the project manager. He will store all project documents, and he will initiate the required task of the working group. Expected results: 11 visits to Malta, 8 visits to Portugal. A teachers' methodological meeting of the group, where the methodological experience of visited countries will be presented and suggestions of professional training program content changes made. Expected impact and long-term benefits: -The students participating in the project will be provided with the opportunity to assess their existing knowledge and will allow them to add new competencies. -The school will establish new relationships with successful companies operating in Europe. A successful partnership can lead to the emergence of new projects or even the development of strategic partnerships. - Teachers participating in the project will enable them to upgrade professional skills, will provide them with new skills, thus leading jewelers hope to update the curriculum.