Nowadays society demands people to be capable of self-directing their professional and personal lives. Everyone has to make choices, has to handle changes, has to deal with uncertainty. Most people cannot do this by nature, they have to learn it. The lifelong learning (LLL) policy of the EU is a way to stimulate and facilitate citizens to enlarge their capability of self-directing their career. This policy will be more effective if young people are involved from the start. The best place to learn this is in school when pupils/students have to make choices with regard to further education and career. However, Dutch research shows that the current way in which this is organized in schools is not very effective. A promising approach is guiding pupils in a dialogic way at their development of a work-identity: the concept of career-learning. Therefore, this project starts from the hypothesis that career-learning is a success factor for LLL. The project will produce new work methods, supportive instruments and materials, specifications and outlines for teacher training and finally a strategy on how to implement this.The partners are fully aware of the differences in school systems, roughly to be divided in the academics (EN, ES, FI, PL) and the vocationals (BE, AT, DE, NL), and qualify these differences not as hindrances, but as a positive dynamic factor for real learning during the project.The project group will work in close consultation and co-operation with 8 local student and with 8 teacher panels. This co-creation method will supply a balance between the local situation and the general (evidence based) concepts. At the same time it will offer a good view on and concrete examples of suitable ways of implementing these new policies and work methods. A website will be built to create digital workspaces for participants in the project as well as a means to disseminate, to monitor and to report on the project.