The TransAd partnership explored issues faced by people with intellectual disabilities in making the transition to adulthood in Greece, Poland and the UK. We took a particular focus on supported and independent living. We exchanged knowledge and experience through four transnational workshops and maintained contact in between times through email as we worked on within country activities to develop our ideas.People with intellectual disabilities played an increasingly active part in the workshops which are reported in multimedia format at www.clickstart.org.uk/grundtvigproject. This website illustrates the ways in which we worked together and provides ideas and proposals about preparation for independent living and the related topics of transition and change, advocacy and active participation in daily activities. We also developed skills in multimedia advocacy which is a form of self advocacy. We regarded multimedia advocacy to be extremely useful and to have real practical value in recognising the possibilities, aspirations, talents and achievements of people with intellectual disabilities. The value of multimedia advocacy for us is mainly in its impact at an individual, personal level including its use in planning adult education, organising patterns of care and support and creating opportunities for social participation. It can lead to autonomy and self determination which supports transition and change. It clearly also has value for those involved in planning and commissioning educational, health and social services at regional and national levels.The project had a strong impact on the core participants which can be seen through their comments on the website: we all improved our skills and understanding of multimedia advocacy, we all learnt more about the experience of people in other countries and developed a greater capacity to work across the boundaries of language, culture and history that existed in this transnational project.