The requirements on the adolescents become increasingly complex in our society.In the course of the expansion of professional, social and spacial mobility traditional influencing factors (e.g. family, church, clubs) increasingly lose meaning. The changing requirements within the working world require new skills like flexibility, mobility, permanent readiness to learn new skills and adaptability.Due to the increasing orientation at the service concepts and by the requirements of the cooperation in all fields of work , the ability to work in a team and communication skills are part of the social basic skills. Moreover, flexibility and problem solving competence are asked by the fast change of the knowledge and the markets with the adolescents. The target groups are pupils in the entire field of the secondary and vocational school up to the transition of school to education or studies. This group also contains pupils with migrant background who do not dispose of the required social skills due to their origin, which may include other social values.The international component serves the comparison of the respective, already existing attempts at the promotion of the social skills particularly in the school area as well as the transfer of the different experiences and knowledge which can enter the respective concepts of the partner regions, particularly considering the requirements on adolescents due to changed life and working conditions.The project aim is to promote the acquisition of social skills of pupils at secondary and vocational schools to support a later transition to education and profession. The cooperation of passing schools and including systems (apprenticing companies, universities) in terms of the mediation of social skills shall be strengthened. Objectives of the project:- The pupils master the basic social skills which are expected in the context of education and profession.- The number of suitable applicants on apprenticeships with an existing educational maturity will be increased.- Pupils dispose of all professionally relevant social skills, whereby the number of not communicable applicants with available school degrees is reducedprospective results of the project:- requirement determination of the including institutions (university / economy); development of a questionnaire- Definition of competences (which competences should be brought along by pupils)- Multiplier events with focus on parental work- Construction of a concept for the acquisition of the fixed competences in cooperation with schools, companies and universities- Social Skills Animations – Short comic strips regarding the selected competences for a better illustration- Development of a questionnaire for schools / universities / companies to evaluate the effects of the conceptFor the target group we expect an increased motivation by finding out and conveying the strengths and potentials of one’s own, and the emergence of an awareness concerning the meaningfulness of social skills while searching for an apprenticeship. Particularly for the group of migrants missing social competences are based on other cultural backgrounds which go along with other social values. Here, the support by institutions closes gaps which cannot always be recognised by the parental home owing to their origin.