There is an increasing importance of statistical literacy for everyday life, “to be an intelligent citizen it is necessary to know something about statistics”. Almost every economic and scientific activity in the modern world relies on statistical information in one way or another. It plays a prominent role in business and industry, aspects of government and scientific and economic progress. The I-USE Project is a response to the importance of statistical use in the Europe Education & Training 2020 agenda.Students are now living in a society that demands evidence-based arguments and decisions. While the world is changing rapidly with respect to the prevalence and use of statistics, the curriculum in schools and the approaches teachers adopt tend to be slow to respond to such changes. Therefore I-USE creates meaningful, innovative teacher training in developing statistical thought processes.The goal of I-USE is to create an in-service teacher training course dealing with how to make sense of information through different presentation forms and media. Trainees will examine how to develop students’ statistical thinking through sophisticated and innovative web-based tools to support the learning process. The tools will be organized in a toolbox, fully integrated with the web site and be based on the surveyed needs of students and teachers.Short-term impact will be on the organisations in the project, teachers who pilot the materials, peers who review and evaluate the project activities and outcomes and NGOs / Government organisations involved in teacher training including Ministries. Longer-term targets include decision-makers, curriculum planners and developers, teachers and teacher educators, NGOs interested in education, academics, researchers and professionals. I-USE outcomes will be available for use by stakeholders to address quantitative skills involved in many everyday decisions.