On 1 July 2012 the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) in Finland, the Ministry of the Interior in Lithuania, the University of Tartu in Estonia and the CBSS TF-THB commenced a two-year flagship project ‘ADSTRINGO – Addressing trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation through improved partnerships, enhanced diagnostics and intensified organisational approaches’. It will be implemented in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden with the financial support of the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Commission Directorate General for Home Affairs. The Baltic Sea Cooperation Unit of the Swedish Institute is financing separately the CBSS TF-THB for project activities in the Russian Federation and Poland. The two main activities planned in the project are: baseline research on recruitment practices in relation to trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation in both countries of origin and destination and national workshops in each of the participating countries to bring together all relevant stakeholders to discuss cooperation on trafficking for labour exploitation and how to prevent it. As an outcome of both activities, the project also aims to develop guidelines on how to prevent this form of human trafficking and exploitation. The findings of the research will be presented and discussed on 18 October 2013 at a high-level conference in Vilnius during the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU. Achievements: A focused research on recruitment practices and roles of recruitment agencies and employers in the exploitation of migrant labour was carried out in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania. The joint research report was launched in October 2013 at an international seminar organised in Vilnius, Lithuania in connection with the Seventh EU Anti-Trafficking Day to initiate discussion between actors in the Baltic Sea Region and within the EU. In addition, a set of concrete guidelines for employers, recruitment agencies and other actors was developed in 2013-2014. During the development process, two international expert meetings were organised to bring together experts from different European countries as well as from international organisations to exchange ideas and experiences and discuss what issues should be covered in the guidelines.The guidelines publication was launched in June 2014. The guidelines are also available in Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian and Swedish. Furthermore, a brief version of the guidelines was also produced in order to enable better dissemination of the guidelines to target audiences. These brief versions are available in English, Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian and Swedish.The project publications are available underhttp://www.heuni.fi/en/index/researchareas/humantrafficking/adstringo-addressingtraffickinginhumanbeingsforlabourexploitationthroughimprovedpartnershipsenhanceddiagnosticsandintensifiedorganisationalapproaches.html