The global objective of the project is to enable potential beneficiaries to gain a better knowledge and understanding of EU practices and to be prepared for accession through strengthening the contacts and mutual exchange of experience in veterinary sectors of civil society in the Member States and Turkey, encouragement of exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies. Our project fulfills these requirements on farriery subject. Specific objective is to encourage horse related professionals and poor families working with horse and donkeys, enterprises with organizing farriery training activities, to improve working equine welfare. The Project coordinator AKU and other partners, Macedonian and Latvian Agricultural Universities are public bodies responsible in Veterinary training in the region. Planned activities are to form project team, to form a list of requirements, to determine educators, to provide physical equipments (farriery tools, computer etc.), to determine education activity program, to arrange visual materials such as brochures etc. in order to deliver the trainees and their families, to prepare leaflets brochures etc. in order to present the project, to determine trainees, to form education workshop, to do farriery trainings in Lethonia and Macedonia with local and foreign experts, to do traininig activity in Macedonia with participation Turkish veterinary related students for enhancing awarenes level of students on importance of foot trimming on animal health, to produce and deliver a short film, to do farriery apprenticeship to trainees, to arrange tours stud farms, to prepare outcome reports with the project outputs. Farriery training activities in Macedonia and Lethonia will be the cornerstone of the project because these trained skilled personnels will have basic animal welfare training capacity to local veterinarians and other relevant persons in their countries. Staff of partner associations are to be trained in Macedonia and Lethonia, and subsequently to establish a farriery training curriculum, with the support of the partners. The veterinary related persons participating at Vocational Trainings in partner universities are expected to deliver their required experiences and competences through the project duration via seminars, local, national, international, workshops. Furthermore, international farriery conference will be held in Turkey with the participation of local and foreign partners. It is aimed at training experts from the region and other regions and in collaboration on a long-term basis at national and European levels. An exhibition about the history of farriery in partner countries will be organized in order to raise an awareness on the disappearing profession 'farriery'. Also a competition under evaluation of experienced farriers will be run among the participants of training activities who will take place in farriery Trainings. Historical farriery museum will be established in the AKU. The museum will include former unused antique farriery tools/equipments which will be collected from older forges. The museum will exhibit the history of farriery in Turkey. The activity will raise the awareness of the disappearing profession and help to promote dissemination events. The project has been planned for completion in two years.