Currently there are approx. 1,000 European Works Councils (EWCs) with about 15,000 to 20,000 members. Their task is to inform the employees and to work in consultation processes in case of company decisions with transnational effects. The members of EWCs need certain competencies to effectively and efficiently perform their tasks. This includes, e. g., the establishment of efficient communication within an EWC as well as between it and the corporate management. One of the major difficulties is the decentralized election of the employee representatives. They have different interests, experience and competence levels. At many training events for European Works Council members the participants have frequently stressed that there is a need for a qualification concept which includes legal and intercultural competence. Within the scope of the LIFT.COM project (2001-2004) an approach was elaborated to form intercultural teams from European Works Councils. The "Intercultural competence" module of the LIFT.COM concept has now been supplemented by the module "Legal and organizational framework for EWC work", which was elaborated in 2010 within the scope of the EU-funded project of IG BCE (budget line 04.03.03.03). The contents of both updated modules are integrated into the new "TEAM.EWC" qualification concept in a transfer process. The objective of the innovation transfer is to familiarize teachers, trainers and coaches, especially at the social partners' education institutions, with the qualification concept TEAM.EWC. The project results are intended to improve the systematic qualification of EWC members. This is based on an agreement between the social partners of the German chemical industry from October 2010. The aim has been, and will be, to spread the project to other European countries and to obtain certification by the social partners. The project consortium therefore included a European trade union association based in Brussels (industriAll-Europe, BE), trade unions from AT, DE and RO, an employers' association as well as a social partner institution from DE. The evaluation was performed under the leadership of a partner (DE) with additional competence in the fields of quality management and quality assurance. The intention is to improve, support and further develop the competencies of employee representatives throughout Europe together with the social partners.