The seven partners in the strategic partnership project of "Addiction Treatment in Schools (APS) plan to combine their efforts, competence and knowledge to develop new knowledge on how schools' and educators' work to prevent young people's addiction problems. The partners wish to focus on how teachers and school leaders can improve their knowledge concerning addiction prevention, detection and treatment. The aim is to develop relevant skills needed to meet students who are in danger of developing addiction problems or who have already done so. The partnership consists of three schools, three local authorities and one addiction treatment centre. They from as disparate countries as Italy, Belgium and Norway, spanning almost the entire length of Europe, thus giving the opportunity of combining knowledge and competences from very different angles both geographically , culturally and professionally. A transnational project will give each of the partners new perspectives. The three partner countries are diverse and have different approaches to addiction related work and to education. There is also a marked difference to what extent the family and public bodies interact in these fields. The partners believe that combining knowledge from Italy, Belgium and Norway will result in better ways to meet the challenges that addiction present. The partneship will cooperate to create tools that can assist educators in facing challenges caused by youths' addiction problems. The main goal of the three year project is therefore to develop manuals, routines, worklists and action plans that teachers and school leaders will find useful. The tools developed should have a form and function that make them relevant, adaptable to the individual situations faced as well as "attractive" alternatives in the busy and demanding day to day school life. The basis for the tools that are to be developed will be a survey of methods and competences and a compilation of best practices in partner institutions. These overviews will give a common ground and understanding for professional discussions and reflections on which means are the most useful for handling addiction related challenges in schools. Even though the focus of the project is to improve the skills of educators, the aim of APS is to help students avoid developing addiction problems and to improve the outcome of their education and the quality of their lives. The focus of the project is primarily students in their late teens. The project work will be done through six transnational project meetings, two for each year of the three years that APS is planned to last. The aims of these meetings are to learn from the work done in each country/region and to see how this work can be combined in order to create new and improved ways in which to handle the addiction related challenges educators meet in their work with students. The partners will also be commited to following up the work agreed upon between the transnational project meetings and to cooperate by the use of online platforms throughout the project period. The partner organisations do not know of any other projects or work that has been done on an transnational/international or European level to combine knowledge and ways in which addiction related work in school is done. In this way APS will have an innovative focus and aim. It is the partners' intention and hope that the project will develop tools that will be of use for schools, educators and support systems throughout Europe. The project partners will prepare reports and other documents describing the processes, knowledge, competences and tools developed though the three year partnership. These will be made available in both paper based and electronic versions. All tools and results of the project will be made universally available without restrictions for use by anyone who find them useful. At the end of the project period, the partners will organize three national conferences to spread the knowledge, competences and tools acquired through the APS project. These conferences will be open to educators and other relevant stakeholders, such as local and regional authorities, prevention services, competence and treatment centres, health institutions and administrative personell on both national and European level.