Project Leader: Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych i Ogólnokształcących nr 6 w ŁomżyProject partners: Vilnius School of Technology, Business and Agriculture, Daugavpils Tirdzniecibas profesionala vidusskola, Business partner: Perfect Project BialystokThe main goal of the project – to modernize the educational system of the project partners through the preparation, testing and promotion of innovative teaching and learning methods and techniques in vocational education, using a modern tool for assessing skills and qualifications, introducing innovative teaching methods and techniques with the use of multimedia and ICT and the development of materials for vocational education, including professional foreign language and designing of training programs in which pupils from partner schools will participate.This objective was broken down into sub-objectives / outputs that were developed by the project partners.Result 1 - developed by the Project Leader: - an innovative tool for assessing skills and professional qualifications with the use of online tools and mobile technologies.Result 2 - developed by the school from Latvia – innovative teaching method in vocational school supported by innovative multimedia and ICT technologies, focused on teaching with the use of mobile technologies (d-learning and m-learning).Result 3 - developed by Lithuanian school – innovative materials for learning general and horizontal skills, especially for marketing, ICT, multilingualism with multimedia elements, eLearning module and other teaching methods available during the project implementation.Result 4 - developed by Perfect Project – an innovative program of three training courses to increase educational mobility and collaboration with employers, tailored to the needs of students and employers; the program has been developed with the use of the tool for assessing skills and qualifications, and with the use of innovative learning methods and materials developed by project partners.Result 5 - adapted to the needs of partner schools and employers and implemented by the members of the partnership (the schools from Poland, Lithuanian and Latvia) – Strategic system: EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OF FUTURE WORKERS.Within the project, based on previous assumptions and diagnosis, innovative methods and techniques of teaching were prepared, tested, implemented with the use of the modern tool which is, adjusted to the needs of secondary school, the educational MOODLE platform, for assessment of skills and vocational qualifications, with the use of innovative methods and techniques of teaching exploiting multimedia technologies and ICT. The materials for teaching vocational subjects have been prepared, especially e-marketing (the effect of the activities of Lithuanian school) as well as the materials for learning Business English. Additionally, a system of training of professional skills has been created in the areas of ICT, business ethics and communication, that is, in the areas of “deficiency of skills and competences” stated on the basis of diagnosis which had been carried out among Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian entrepreneurs.In the stage of implementation, the system of training of professional skills and qualifications was tested by students and teachers from the cooperating schools. However, it should be highlighted that everyone interested in modern professional training, from all over the world, can use and take advantage of the training sessions developed in the project (all the materials are accessible in English). Project participants, that is students and teachers of cooperating schools, methodological advisers in teacher improvement centres, professional advisers in schools, institutions supporting educational process, local entrepreneurs and other social groups interested in modern education, will receive, apart from traditional method of teaching, the possibility to gain, enhance and consolidate knowledge and skills through mobile and distance learning, that is:•freedom to choose place, pace and time of learning,•steady access to learning materials,•diversity of material presentation,•access to selected source materials,•implementation to independent learning,•putting acquired knowledge and skills into practice,•contact with the teacher and other students,•development of language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing), implementation to independence in the process of learning a foreign language,•sharing and exchanging knowledge between the participants of the courses,•efficient communication between the users.Additional advantages resulting from the project are as follows:•strengthening professional image of teachers – improving their competences, especially in ICT,•developing key and cross sectional skills,•increase of both national and international educational mobility,•reduction of early school leaving,•improving professional skills and competences.