Project „Teacher professional competencies improving during international practice“ seeks for favourable conditions for teachers of service and support industry specialities to improve their professional skills and competencies.Duration of project implementation is 13 months. 4 sending partners from Lithuania – Alytus vocational training centre, Marijampolė vocational training centre, Tauragė vocational training centre and Karalius Mindaugas vocational training centre – are participating in the project. Accepting partners: vocational school Esprominho in Portugal, international agencies IEC TEMIS in Spain and Wisamar Bildungsgesellschaft gemeinnuetzige GmbH in Germany.30 vocational teachers going to visits abroad are working according to hairdresser (4 teachers), waiter/barmen (3 teachers), cook (4 teachers), hygiene cosmetics cosmetician (4 teachers), masseur (2 teachers), equipment maintenance business employee (3 teacher) training programmes. Duration of visists – 2 weeks , because this period of time is sufficient and necessary to satisfy the needs of participants and to implement the aims of the project. Main aims of the project:- to create opportunities for vocational teachers to get acquainted with teaching methods used in foreign countries educational institutions, to improve professional competencies, to try new teaching/learning methods and new technological equipment creatively, take the best education practices over and apply them into their educational institutions; - to give to each vocational teacher a possibility to evaluate their professional activity newly, what things should be improved in his/her activity, what knowledge, competencies and skills he/she lacks and what is necessary to take into consideration wehn planning professional development. - to create an opportunity for vocational teachers to develop their personal initiative, to improve their qualification when sharing good practice experience with Lithuanian and foreign countries colleagues. -promote innovation, creativity and advanced technology vocational training - to encourage participants in the project information and communication competences, new technologies and applicability in everyday work, look for innovative teaching (learning) methods, familiarization with new educational decisions applicable to everyday training (learning) process in an intercultural environment .- to improve foreign language competencies.When implementing the aims of the project, it is intended to create a specific product – portfolio of vocational training process improvement where would be particular proposals ragarding new training subjects, new technologies or introduction of training modules, discussed issues of improvement of producation practice organization in order to train qualified specialists of servising and supporting area and at the maximum anticipate vocational training to the changes of the labour market .Project will be implemented during 2016 – 2017. Project participants will visit vocational training institutions and business companies in Germany, Spain and Portugal. During the internship, project participants will get acquainted with technics and equipment used in host countries vocational schools and companies as well as with working culture, host country history, culture, traditions, develop linguistic competencies and professional motivation. The results of the project will be disseminated among Lithuanian vocational schools, Alytus, Kaunas, Marijampolė and Tauragė cities and districts educational institutions, communities, the communities of all organizations participating in this project.