The aim of TRAP UP (Transnational Professional Upgrading Project) is to ensure and secure deaf and hard of hearing (from now on: DHH) children, access in life, educationally and socially.The overall aims of TRAP UP is to:1.Raise awareness and increase knowledge about how teaching methods can be used within the DHH teaching profession to improve the quality of teaching.2.Increase motivation for teachers by upgrading their special knowledge within teaching DHH children.3.Collect and share the great diverse knowledge of best practice for teaching DHH children, within a transnational perspective.4.Create the best possible school life for children who are DHH .5.Create the best possible life for children who are DHH, accessibility from the UN Goals https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/disacc.htmThe field of teaching and preparing DHH children for adult life with the competences, this requires, is struggling, partly because of the increasing inclusive teaching paradigm. We wish to address this challenge by securing and qualifying transnational knowledge sharing at European level. Many children who are deaf or who are hard of hearing also have other challenges. Approximately one third of the DHH children have some sort of genome deficit or learning disability that demands special needs attention in the local schools with included children who are DHH (Andersen, 2014 & Cole & Flexer, 1999). The children are having a hard time to get access to the sourroundings, what is beeing tougt, the social communication and becomming the ultimate version of who they can be in life(Anderson 2015). Our mission is to help the access for these children through this project.This is a struggle we, all 4 partners: The School for the Deaf Ljubljana, Slovenia, State Development Center, Hearing and Communication, Germany, Valteri-koulu Onerva, Finland, Center for Communication and Welfare Technology, Denmark, identified and agreed upon in december 2019 at our second meeting in Slovenia. We would like to develop better ways to help this group of children in the best possible way and document this proces and share this knowledge on a web based platform. All 4 partners have been working with this group of children for several years. All 4 insitutions have a consulting function, that visits these children in the inclusion system. We all work with several schools who include DHH children. In the preparation phase each partner organization reaches out to some of these schools in order to make agreement with them, that they will serve as test schools in the project. In collaboration with the teachers in these classes we will execute testing periods based upon the test design that is prepared in the preparation phase. By working with user involving methods, and using co-creation, we make sure that the users get to know their own needs and they are at the same time able to give feedback while they are testing and implementing the tools.Our products will be:- Teacher training material on inclusion of DHH children in ordinary primary schools (e.g e-learning)The teacher training material is aimed towards teachers who work with inclusion of DHH children.- Distance education concept that aims to teach the individual partners how to implement distance education as an extra service in the individual organizations. Distance education is a necessary tool to reach all DHH children in our countries, but it has been difficult for many to find the right technological solution.- Classroom design concept. A documented guide that describes the best way to design classrooms to include for DHH children.- Differentiated materials for learning, e.g. books with visual stories and with sign language. The materials will be in English with a template for translation into any language.Every organization will get new tools and materials for teaching DHH children in different contexts. This means that the quality of the teaching and counselling will improve in general. The services that the counselling units provide towards inclusive schools will get more flexible, formalized and more standardized as they are getting conzeptualized new tools. This means a higher standard of counselling which leads to better inclusion for DHH pupils in inclusive schools.We hope to improve the quality of teaching within primary and secondary schools by focusing on knowledge, materials and new tools to improve the DHH children’s learning curve and their satisfaction, motivation, and results.The main target group for the project activities are school teachers in primary and secondary schools with DHH children and counsellors, who will benefit from the project through concrete competence development by developing new tools and concepts for their everyday practice. Finally the project seeks to include associated partners in the dissemination proces, to secure impact and sustainability on a broad level across Europe.