Institut Notre-Dame de Joie (INDJ) located in Brussels is a secundary school for pupils with special needs (form 3 type 1 and 3) that aims at helping there pupils with slight mental retardation and behavioural disorders to integrate in social and professional life. It provides training for the professions of encoder, reception assistant, receptionist/telephone operator and auxiliariy or assistant in a store. In the framework of this key-action 1 of Erasmus +, INDJ would like to diversify the professional development of his educational team in order to better meet its pupils’needs and to face the diverse difficulties the team has to tackle, mainly learning disabilities and relationship issues. Therefore, INDJ made the choice of a few specific trainings to which INDJ’s headteacher and several members of the educational team (a teacher of professional practice in office work and store), an educator and a physical education teacher) on behalf of their colleagues. These trainings will span two years. The first year will be devoted to a study visit in Italy, a pioneer country with regard to inclusion of pupils with special needs. It will be organized by the laboratorio of … The participants will discover the Italian education system with its own vision and management of pupils with special needs. Visits to schools will also allow them to observe new teaching practices and meet Italian headteachers and teachers with whom they could have more exchanges on the eTwinning platform after the visit. The second year will include three sessions. The two first ones will take place in Italy and in the Czech Republic, in the context of the UDEL 21 Strategic Partnership « Use Diversity to Enhance Learning in the 21st century ».These trainings will help to add good practices on how to make of diversity a strength to improve learning and teaching to pupils with special needs. They will also give the opportunity to INDJ to experience some theoretical aspects with their pupils within the framework of UDEL 21. A third and last training will take place in Italy again with the Laboratorio. It will deal with education to European citizenship with a focus on openness to cultural and linguistic diversity as a source of personal growth and enrichment.The impact of these trainings will be first of all to improve the quality of pupils’ learning through the practice of new teaching methods and tools likely to bring a more appropriate response to their needs and demands for intellectual, cultural and relationship development. Secundly, it will promote the European dimension and the quality as a learning organization of our Institute (INDJ) by bringing new impetus to its educational team, to secure a stronger internal cohesion, reinforced collaborative relationships with colleagues of primary and ordinary schools and new perspectives in its educational project namely aiming at fostering the inclusion of its pupils.