There were three reasons for implementing this project : - The need to re-establish international cooperation in the field of adult education - The need to draw on know- how in the field of career counseling from the more developed EU countries where this field is already in place - Based on identified training needs in transferable counseling and coaching methods within our staff team. Objectives of the project : - Expand the the professional capacity of the EKS team and service offer focussed on disadvantaged people , careers advisors and institutions dealing with career counselling. - Enhance the sustainability of the organization through the expansion of expertise . - Engage in international cooperation , establish new contacts in the field of lifelong learning and career counselling . - Create a competency model of a career counselor and engage in the process of conceptual enforcement of career counselling in the Czech Republic . - Adopt universal counselling methods to innovate and modernize existing approaches in career counselling in both the EKS and by extension in the country. - Increase knowledge of specialized terminology in career counseling in English for the purpose of further international cooperation. - Strengthen the diversity of know -how within the EKS team and motivate existing members for further development of their competencies . Mobility within the project involves a total of 6 employees and workers of the EKS. When selecting people who will participate in the planned training, we have set as a condition the job description of the person, so that the outputs of the project have a wider impact. This is either the direct work with clients in career counselling or lecturing in this area. It is therefore a trainer or career advisor . The project was planned for 1 year. It consisted of: - The preparatory phase of the June-October 2015 (logistics, assembling ongoing evaluation and self-evaluation questionnaires, work with individual education plans, preparation of materials for self-reflection) - Mobility November 2015 - May 2016 (courses focussed on coaching, facilitation, narrative approach in counseling) - Ongoing evaluation and sharing of know-how November 2015 - May 2016 (presentations, workshops, self-reflection, evaluation, assessment of progress in individual education plan) - Incorporating newly acquired skills, knowledge and experience to our practice. The project was seen as a team activity with regard to learning needs of individuals based on their professional expertise, motivation for further development and existing competencies. This resulted in personal development of individuals and the team as a whole, in which the individual know-how complement each other. The project also contributed to the development of services and activities that EKS implements in the field of training and counseling to disadvantaged target groups and guidance counselors in the country. In the longer term, the project will enable EKS get more involved in the conceptual processes of establishing career counselling in the Czech Republic and offer new educational opportunities for career counselors in the European context .