Throughout Europe, there is on ongoing and differentiated process of professionalization of the homeless sector, as well as an increasingly evidence-based approach to service delivery, partly driven by EU-level policy developments. The European Commission (EC) has called on MS to develop a social investment approach to tackling homelessness, with a strong emphasis on ‘housing-led’ solutions, which involve promoting sustainable exits from homelessness into permanent housing as rapidly as possible. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe face many common challenges in tackling homelessness, and it is therefore relevant to work on CVET for support workers from a transnational perspective within the region by means of a focused project. The partnership consists of 4 partners who are non-profit homeless service providers, all involved in developing and providing vocational training for staff. They also work directly with homeless people, including via adult education and training. They will bring their existing knowledge and expertise about training staff to work with homeless people, as well as about adult education and training for homeless people, and will provide the mechanism for scaling up the learning generated by the project in their countries. 1 partner (FEANTSA) is a European umbrella organisation working exclusively on homelessness. They will bring European/international knowledge and understanding as well as experience of transnational training projects. 1 partner (Habitat for Humanity Hungary) is part of a global network, present in 80 countries of the world, and has organizations in CEE countries also not involved in this partnership (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Slovakia), all working in the area of providing housing for needy people. In Hungary one of their projects exclusively target homeless people with a housing first approach, while others work with other socially excluded groups (like ethnic minorities). They are also active in advocacy for better housing policies. In addition to the first management meeting in Warsaw, there will be five more transnational project partner meetings, one hosted by each project partner. The main purpose of these meetings will be to visit projects and exchange good practices, and to work on the common outcomes (good practice and case study papers, training curriculum, policy recommendations). These meetings will happen with the participation of homeless people, who will be present at the project visits and take part in the meetings as relevant. The project meeting in Brussels will focus on relevant European developments relating to homeless policies and services. More specifically, project partners will be involved in a focus-group type discussion in order to test and provide feedback on new materials which will have been developed in the framework of a Massive Online Open Course on Housing First. Project partners will also receive training on the European dimension of homeless policies. We hope that not only will the participants of the project meetings be more equipped to work with homeless people, but, together with participating organisations will gain enhanced knowledge and understanding of how to train workforce in view of best practices in promoting pathways out of homelessness. They will acquire new training tools, which participants will be able to embed within the participation organisations in order to reach more staff, as well as a strengthened capacity to use ICT and other innovations in training, and a strengthened capacity to lobby for implementation of best practices to support pathways out of homelessness in policy and service terms. Policy makers and other stakeholders on the local, national and European levels will additionally be targeted through the dissemination strategy. The impact on them will be greater awareness of best practices in supporting pathways out of homelessness, and in particular of how best practice models for which there is an increasing international/European evidence base can be situated and applied to specific national/contexts.