In the light of the growing individual autonomy of schools, the topics of school management and school leadership are now an important theme on the political agenda in Germany, Austria as well as in other countries. As a consequence, the school leadership is confronted with different requirements and also the demand for support services and programs for further training has greatly changed. Central to this project is the theme of Leadership as a concept to actively structure the educational process in order to promote learning and equity. The main actors are school supervising authorities in collaboration with the members of school management, as well as institutions for the training of school executive personnel/school directors. The collaboration of these actors will guarantee great improvement in quality and quality assurance in keeping the achieved standards high. The project builds on the achievements of the Comenius Network “European Policy Network on School Leadership (EPNoSL, 2011-2014)”. The project will set into practice and promote the dissemination of fundamental ideasl/assumptions and the conceptual approaches developed by the above mentioned network. The following questions introduce the content framework of the project. Which political and cultural expectations are placed on school management and how are they interpreted within the school and applied to the school´s objectives? How are staff members motivated and how is their good work appreciated? How is the school structured and how is its academic culture developed? How does the school collaborate with its partners and its surrounding environment? This content builds on the assumption that the strengthening of self-responsibility of school directors and executive personnel, as well as appealing framework conditions for these managerial positions will result in a substantial improvement of learning and teaching at school. On this basis, the Berlin senate department for education, youth and science and the Vienna board of education will engage in the years 2014-2016 in a Strategic Regio Partnership as part of the Erasmus + programme. The Berlin consortium consists of the regional education authority Berlin-Reinickendorf, six primary schools of the district Berlin-Reinickendorf, as well as the State Institute for School and Media Berlin-Brandenburg (LISUM) and the EuropaBeratung Berlin (Zukunftsbau GmbH). The Austrian partners are the municipal education authority in Vienna, the European office, the local school inspectorate of the 2nd district as responsible inspectorate, five elementary schools (Volksschulen) of the 2nd district as well as the pedagogical high school Vienna, Institute for futher education in the field of school management. Through the collaboration of these seventeen partners a network will develop which will bring together theory and practice, it will give space for exchange of information, good cooperation activities and will open the way for new partnerships. Outcomes of this project will be a range of influential guideline recommendation papers for school personnel and a collection of examples of good practice in the field of school management. These outcomes will encourage the development of competences of the executive personnel in the educational field, executive teams in collaboration with school inspectorates/school administrations, as well as the involved institutions offering further training for this personnel/managerial positions. For the implementation of the project four project meeting will take place (2 in Berlin, 2 in Vienna). In each meeting the partners will engage in a work shadowing. All the activities will be documented by the partners in a self-developed journal. The outcomes of the collective work will finally be brought together in guidelines/recommendation papers for school management and the gathered good practices will be published and also be summarized in a short film. At the end of the project, there will be two additional meetings, one in Berlin and one in Vienna. These meetings will make the results available to disseminators and additional school management personnel who were not involved in the project. As a result, the project guarantees in the medium-term higher quality standards and quality assurance in education, as well as the reinforcement of the professional profile of leadership roles in the educational field.